Readings, issues, and questions in public finance /
| Други автори: | Brown, Eleanor, 1954- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Homewood, Ill. :
Irwin,
1988.
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| Серия: |
Irwin publications in economics.
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| Предмети: |
Съдържание:
- I. Market failure
- To what extent is education a public good? / James Wyckoff
- What do we know about acid rain?
- Privatization
- Regulating drivers in smoggy Denver
- II. Public choice
- Economics and the political process / Alice M. Rivlin
- Influences on legislator voting : theory and an example / Stephen V. Marks
- Differential representation between the Senate and the House of Representatives
- Lobbying on Capitol Hill
- III. The distribution of income and programs for income redistribution
- A surge in inequality / Lester C. Thurow
- Welfare payment levels and the migration of female-headed families / Rebecca M. Blank
- Work for welfare : how much good will it do? / Frank S. Levy and Richard C. Michel
- Workfare as preparation for the job market
- Experimental projects for Medicaid
- IV. Social insurance programs
- The future of Social Security : one economist's assessment / James Tobin
- Controlling Medicare outlays : will prepaid health plans work? / Stephen Zuckerman
- Unisex insurance / Edward Golding and Nadja Zalokar
- Extending the scope of Medicare benefits
- Monitoring HMO performance
- Personal habits and insurance costs
- V. Cost-benefit analysis
- The painful prescription : rationing hospital care / Henry Aaron and William Schwartz
- The costs and benefits of AIDS testing
- What cost extinction?
- VI. Taxation : incidence, efficiency, and equity
- Some calculations of lifetime tax incidence / James Davies, France St-Hilaire, and John Whalley
- Why not a true flat rate tax? / Edgar K. Browning and Jacquelene M. Browning
- The marriage tax is down but not out / Harvey S. Rosen
- Exporting taxes
- Legal incidence versus economic incidence
- Marginal excess burden
- Marital status and returns from Social Security
- VII. Federal taxation
- Housing the poor : shelter by tax shelter / James P. Luckett
- Did IRAs stimulate personal saving?
- Tax reform : theory and practice / Joseph A. Pechman
- The shaky case for aiding investment / Marc Levinson
- A fair tax act that's bad for business / Lawrence H. Summers
- Sin taxes
- Itemized deductions and tax progressivity
- Asset markets and the changing tax treatment of capital gains
- VIII. Deficit finance
- Thinking about government deficits I : domestic ramifications / Jules B. Prag
- Which budget deficit? Some issues of measurement and their implications / Robert Eisner
- Does Washington need a new set of books? / Michael J. Boskin versus J. Gregory Ballentine
- Government investments and the savings rate
- Public choice theory and budget deficits
- A little revenue is a dangerous thing?
- IX. Fiscal federalism
- Tax competition : is what's good for the private goose also good for the public gander? / Charles E. McLure
- Eliminating the deductibility of sales taxes
- Tax turf
- Heterogeneous communities and locally provided goods
- X. Public finance in an international setting
- Thinking about government deficits II : international ramifications / Jules B. Prag
- Agricultural subsidies would be jointly cut under U.S. trade plan / Art Pine
- Offshore tax havens
- Externalities and the global environment
- Unitary taxes on multinational corporations.