Foundations in Public Economics

Sommario

Preface and acknowledgments; Notation; Part I. Scope and Limitations: 1. Introduction; 2. Social objectives and direct decision making; 3. Market decentralization; 4. Market decentralization; 4. Theory of collective goods; Part II. Decision Making in a Mixed Economy: 5. Planning mechanisms; 6. Models of a mixed economy; 7. Government budgeting and fiscal decentralization; 8. Public pricing and optimal-commodity taxation; Part III. First-Order Project Analysis: 9. Decompositions and general theory of second best; 10. Principles of shadow pricing; 11. Local public goods; 12. Intertemporal contexts with uncertainty; 13. Identifying shadow values: hedonic methods and capitalization; Part IV. Evaluating Large Projects: 14. search for exact measures; 15. Surplus approximations; 16. Practical methods for large-project evaluation; 17. Peak-load problem; Epilog; References; Author index; Subject index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David A. Starrett, Starrett David A.
• Con la collaborazione di: F. H. Hahn (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 24.06.1988
• EAN: 9780521348010
• ISBN: 978-0-521-34801-0
• Pagine: 332
• Serie: Cambridge Economic Handbooks; Cambridge Economic Handbooks
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Diritto, professione, finanze; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Altro; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic theory and philosophy