Public Economics

by Gareth D. Myles

• ISBN13: 9780521497695
• ISBN10: 0521497698
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-11-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This up-to-date new textbook provides a thorough treatment of all the central topics in public economics. Aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students, it will also be invaluable to professional economists and to those teaching in the field. The book is entirely self-contained, giving all the equilibrium theory and welfare economics needed to understand the analyses. The author covers the Arrow-Debreu economy, welfare economics and the measurement of inequality and povery which lay the foundations and emphasize the important role played by information. Within the competitive economy, he examines commodity taxation, income taxation and tax reform in a certain environment. He goes on to study the public economics of uncertainty, and then treats public goods, externalities, imperfect competition and tax evasion as departures from the standard competitive assumptions and looks at their implication for public economics derived. Finally, after treatment of the overlapping generations economy, he addresses intertemporal issues concerning social security and debts.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part I. Foundations: 1. Introduction

2. General equilibrium and welfare economics

3. Topics in measurement

Part II. Analysis in the Competitive Economy: 4. Commodity taxation

5. Income taxation

6. Policy reform

7. Risk

8. Corporate taxation

Part III. Relaxing the Assumptions: 9. Public goods

10. Externalities

11. Imperfect competition

12. Tax evasion

Part IV. Introducing Real Time: 13. Overlapping generations economies

14. Social security

15. Debt and taxation

References

Index.