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.
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".