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Jha, Raghbendra

Modern public economics - 2nd - London Routledge 2010 - xxiv,623p. ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge advanced texts in economics and finance .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A quick primer on consumer demand -- Perfect competition and Pareto optimality -- Forms of the social welfare function -- External effects and the market mechanism -- The theory of pure public goods -- Topics in the theory of public goods -- The effects of taxes on savings -- Taxation and labor supply -- The effects of taxes on investment behavior -- Taxation and risk taking -- The theory of tax incidence -- Tax incidence in dynamic models -- Some results in commodity taxation -- Aspects of income taxation -- Topics in the theory of taxation -- Tax reform -- Pricing in the public sector -- International aspects of taxation -- Tax incentives and corporate taxation -- Global public goods -- Cost-benefit analysis and randomized evaluation -- Environmental taxation and emission trading sachemes -- Issues in fiscal federalism -- Grants and taxes in federal countries.

ISBN: 9780415460118

LCCN: 2009011374

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA971394 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015331570 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Welfare economics.
Expenditures, Public.
Taxation.
Finance, Public.

LC Class. No.: HB846 / .J47 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 336 / JH-M