Cullis, John G.

Public finance and public choice : analytical perspectives / Public finance & public choice John Cullis and Philip Jones. - 3rd ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xxvii, 531 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Market performance : possibilities and prescriptions -- Externalities -- Public goods -- Collective decision-making : searching for the ""public interest"" -- Rent-seeking, public provision and the ""return to the market"" -- Evaluation of public expenditure : cost--benefit analysis -- Tax theory : the basic concepts -- Tax evasion and the black economy -- Income (re)distribution -- Central government -- Public choice aspects of macroeconomic policies -- Fiscal federalism -- International issues in public finance -- Public sector failure and public expenditure growth -- Optimal taxation -- Towards a ""new"" public finance economics : experiments, behaviour, neuro-imaging and ""individual failure"".

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Finance, Public.
Social choice.