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This market-leading textbook reflects the way public policy is created, implemented, and researched, integrating theory, application, and evidence. Real-world empirical work and coverage of transfer programs and social insurance are woven with the traditional topics of public finance. This timely new edition gives students the basic tools they need to understand the driving issues of public policy today, including healthcare, education, global climate change, entitlements, and more.
Contents
PART I Introduction and Background1 Why Study Public Finance? 2 Theoretical Tools of Public Finance3 Empirical Tools of Public Finance 4 Budget Analysis and Deficit Financing PART II Externalities and Public Goods5 Externalities: Problems and Solutions 6 Externalities in Action: Environmental and Health Externalities 7 Public Goods 8 Cost-Benefit Analysis 9 Political Economy 10 State and Local Government Expenditures 11 Education PART III Social Insurance and Redistribution12 Social Insurance: The New Function of Government 13 Social Security 14 Unemployment Insurance, Disability Insurance, and Workers' Compensation 15 Health Insurance I: Health Economics and Private Health Insurance 16 Health Insurance II: Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Care Reform 17 Income Distribution and Welfare Programs PART IV Taxation in Theory and Practice18 Taxation: How It Works and What It Means 19 The Equity Implications of Taxation: Tax Incidence < 20 Tax Inefficiencies and Their Implications for Optimal Taxation 21 Taxes on Labor Supply 22 Taxes on Savings 23 Taxes on Risk Taking and Wealth 24 Taxation of Business Income 25 Fundamental Tax Reform and Consumption Taxation
