analytical perspectives Cullis, John G. creator Jones, Philip R. 1948- text Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2009 3rd ed. monographic xxvii, 531 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. 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"". John Cullis and Philip Jones. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Finance, Public Social choice 0199234787 9780199234783 2009017030 6714