ABSTRACT

This wide-ranging, up-to-date and detailed account of all aspects of public economics covers topics as varied as:

* classical theorems of welfare economics
* the theory of public expenditure
* the effects of taxation on savings, labour supply investment and risk-taking
* commodity, income and expenditure taxation
* public sector and cost-benefit analysis
* fiscal federalism.

Written by Raghbendra Jha, an author with an established reputation, this book fills the gap in literature on this topic and will be a valuable reference for undergraduates in the fields of economics and public finance.

part |1 pages

Part I Welfare economics

chapter |3 pages

Introduction to Part I

chapter 1|16 pages

A quick primer on consumer demand

chapter 2|26 pages

Perfect competition and Pareto optimality

chapter 3|22 pages

Forms of the social welfare function

part |1 pages

Part II The theory of public expenditure

chapter |3 pages

Introduction to Part II

chapter 4|16 pages

External effects and the market mechanism

chapter 5|25 pages

The theory of pure public goods

chapter 6|31 pages

Topics in the theory of public goods

part |1 pages

Part III The theory of taxation

chapter |3 pages

Introduction to Part III

chapter 7|28 pages

The effects of taxes on savings

chapter 8|22 pages

Taxation and labor supply

chapter 10|15 pages

Taxation and risk taking

chapter 11|22 pages

The theory of tax incidence

chapter 12|31 pages

Tax incidence in dynamic models

chapter 13|20 pages

Some results in commodity taxation

chapter 14|29 pages

Aspects of income taxation

chapter 15|25 pages

Topics in the theory of taxation

chapter 16|23 pages

Tax reform

part |1 pages

Part IV Applied problems in public economics

chapter |1 pages

Introduction to Part IV

chapter 17|33 pages

Pricing in the public sector

chapter 18|19 pages

International aspects of taxation

chapter 19|18 pages

Cost-benefit analysis

part |1 pages

Part V Fiscal Federalism

chapter |1 pages

Introduction to Part V

chapter 20|21 pages

Issues in fiscal federalism

chapter 21|24 pages

Grants and taxes in federal countries

chapter |13 pages

Problems