Lectures on Public Economics (eBook)

Updated Edition

Anthony B. Atkinson, Joseph E. Stiglitz (Autoren)

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2015 | Updated Edition
568 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6625-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The definitive textbook on public finance-now back in print for the first time in years This classic introduction to public finance remains the best advanced-level textbook on the subject ever written. First published in 1980, Lectures on Public Economics still tops reading lists at many leading universities despite the fact that the book has been out of print for years. This new edition makes it readily available again to a new generation of students and practitioners in public economics.The lectures presented here examine the behavioral responses of households and firms to tax changes. Topics include the effects of taxation on labor supply, savings, risk-taking, the firm, debt, and economic growth. The book then delves into normative questions such as the design of tax systems, optimal taxation, public sector pricing, and public goods, including local public goods.Written by two of the world's preeminent economists, this edition of Lectures on Public Economics features a new introduction by Anthony Atkinson and Joseph Stiglitz that discusses the latest developments in the field and areas for future research.The definitive advanced-level textbook on public economicsExamines the effects of taxation on households and firmsCovers tax system design, optimal taxation, public sector pricing, and moreIncludes suggestions for further readingAdditional resources available online

Autor

Anthony B. Atkinson is Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and an honorary fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford. His books include Public Economics in an Age of Austerity. Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University and winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. His books include The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.6.2015
• Einführung: Anthony B. Atkinson, Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Zusatzinfo: 73 line illus. 22 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Steuern / Steuerrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Behavioral Economics • comparative economic systems • Competition (economics) • Consumer economy • Consumption (Economics) • Consumption Tax • Cost Accounting • Credit (finance) • Credit rationing • Diversification (finance) • Dividend Payout Ratio • Dividend Policy • Economic equilibrium • Economic indicator • economic interventionism • Economic planning • Economic Policy • Economic Power • economic problem • Economic Rent • Economics • Economic statistics • economic surplus • Economic Theory (journal) • economist • economy • Factor cost • Factor market • Factor price • Fiscal Federalism • Fiscal illusion • Fiscal Policy • General Equilibrium Theory • Gross (economics) • Hedge (finance) • income • Income–consumption curve • Income Tax • Inflation accounting • International Economics • Investment • investment policy • Keynesian Economics • Macroeconomic model • Macroeconomics • Mainstream economics • Marginal cost • Marginal product • marginal rate of substitution • marginal utility • market analysis • Market Clearing • Market (economics) • Market Economy • market liquidity • Market Mechanism • Market Participant • Market power • Market Price • Market rate • Market sector • monetary policy • Monetary Theory • Neoclassical Economics • Non-convexity (economics) • Normative Economics • Optimal tax • Political Economy • Price elasticity of demand • Price index • price mechanism • Price support • Profit (economics) • Provision (accounting) • Public Economics • Public Expenditure • Public Finance • Real versus nominal value (economics) • Retail Price Index • saving • Social discount rate • social welfare function • Supply (economics) • Tax • tax arbitrage • Tax Competition • Tax deduction • Tax Incidence • Tax Policy • Tax Rate • Tax Reform • Tax shift • Technical progress (economics) • The Economic Journal • Theory of value (economics) • Transfer Pricing • Treasury stock • Utility • Utility maximization problem • Welfare Economics
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6625-1 / 1400866251
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6625-0 / 9781400866250