Public Finance and Public Policy
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Summary
Public Finance and Public Policy offers an accessible introduction to the responsibilities and limitations of government, addressing the question of when, or the extent to which, a society should forgo the economic freedom of personal choice in markets and rely on government for efficiency and social justice.
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Public Finance and Public Policy by Arye L Hillman
This new edition restructures and updates the political economy view of the responsibilities and limitations of government. Public-choice and behavioural concepts are prominent. Gender issues are included. Technical concepts are explained from first principles. Economic theory is rigorously applied. Excessive technicality is avoided. The book integrates traditional public finance topics - taxation, public goods, externalities, and income redistribution - with political self-interest, bureaucracy, voting, rent seeking, corruption, and the common-pool problem of public spending. Social justice is viewed as income equality, equality of opportunity, or the right to benefit from one's own effort. Public policies studied include the environment, education, health insurance, welfare payments and entitlements under moral hazard, unemployment insurance, paternalistic impositions, and defence and public safety. This book is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses that combine economic theory with a real-world perspective on the politics of public finance and public policy. A broad scope makes the book suitable for students in all countries.
Arye L. Hillman's professional career has been at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He has, as an invited professor, taught at University of California, Los Angeles, Princeton University, New Jersey, the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), the University of Freiburg, and the Australian National University, and has been an invited fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. He is a joint recipient of the Max-Planck Prize for Humanities Sciences. He has an honorary doctorate from the University of Genoa. He has a B.A. (first-class honours and the University Medal) from the University of Newcastle, New South Wales and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781316501801 |
| ISBN 10 | 1316501809 |
| Title | Public Finance and Public Policy |
| Author | Arye L Hillman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2019-01-10 |
| Number of pages | 652 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |