Richard Tresch earned a bachelor's degree in 1965 from Williams College and a doctorate ineconomics in 1973 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a teaching assistantprior to joining Boston College. He joined the Boston College faculty in 1969, and during his49-year-long career in the college, Dr. Tresch has served as the Chairman of the Department ofEconomics, Director of Graduate Studies, and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Currently, he isProfessor Emeritus of Economics at Boston College. In 1996, he was chosen as the MassachusettsProfessor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He was oneof 585 national entrants in the foundation's U.S. Professors of the Year Program, which salutesoutstanding undergraduate instructors, with the award recognized as one of the most prestigioushonors to be bestowed on professors. Dr. Tresch, a member of the American Economic Association,has served on the board of editors of the American Economic Review and contributed to the NewEngland Journal of Business and Economics and Public Finance. Moreover, he is the editor of a fourvolumemajor reference work on public sector economics.
Public Finance remains the premier textbook on the normative theory of government policy, with the third edition propelling into the twenty-first century its examination of what government ought to be doing instead of what it is doing. The welfare aspects of public economics receive extensively renewed examination in this third edition. With four new chapters and other significant revisions, it presents detailed and comprehensive coverage of theoretical literature, empirical work, environmental issues, social insurance, behavioral economics, and international tax issues. With increased emphasis on the European Union, it is rigid enough for use by PhDs while being accessible to students less well trained in math. - Moves skillfully from explaining normative theory to applying it in mathematically compact and precise terms- Adds new chapters on social insurance, medical care, social security pensions, behavioral public economics, and international public finance- Includes new pedagogical supplements, including end-of-chapter questions and answers- Emphasizes European examples
Front Cover 1
Public Finance 4
Copyright 5
Contents 6
Preface 16
Part 1 Introduction: The Content and Methodology of Public Sector Theory 18
Chapter 1 - Introduction to Normative Public Sector Theory 20
THE FUNDAMENTAL NORMATIVE QUESTIONS 21
GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE THEORY: PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERPINNINGS 22
GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE THEORY AND MARKET FAILURE 26
THE GOVERNMENT SECTOR IN THE UNITED STATES 29
THE THEORY OF TAXATION 31
FISCAL FEDERALISM 32
THE THEORY OF PUBLIC CHOICE 32
BEHAVIORAL PUBLIC FINANCE 34
SUMMARY 35
REFERENCES 36
Chapter 2 - A General Equilibrium Model for Public Sector Analysis 38
A BASELINE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL 39
EFFICIENCY: THE PARETO-OPTIMAL CONDITIONS 40
EQUITY: THE SOCIAL WELFARE FUNCTION AND THE OPTIMAL DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME 41
MAXIMIZING SOCIAL WELFARE 44
POLICY IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS 52
REFERENCES 53
Chapter 3 - First-Best and Second-Best Analyses and the Political Economy of Public Sector Economics 54
LUMP-SUM REDISTRIBUTIONS AND PUBLIC SECTOR THEORY 54
FIRST-BEST ANALYSIS 55
SECOND-BEST ANALYSIS 57
SIMILARITIES BETWEEN FIRST-BEST AND SECOND-BEST ANALYSES 61
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE FUNCTION 62
CONCLUSION 70
REFERENCES 70
Part 2 The Theory of Public Expenditures and Taxation: First-Best Analysis 72
Chapter 4 - The Social Welfare Function in Policy Analysis 74
SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME: THE ATKINSON FRAMEWORK 75
SOCIAL WELFARE AND CONSUMPTION: THE JORGENSON ANALYSIS 82
SOCIAL WELFARE AND SOCIAL MOBILITY 90
REFERENCES 94
Chapter 5 - The Problem of Externalities-An Overview 96
POLICY-RELEVANT EXTERNALITIES 96
THE ANALYSIS OF EXTERNALITIES: MODELING PRELIMINARIES 98
REFERENCES 99
Chapter 6 - Consumption Externalities 100
HOW BAD CAN EXTERNALITIES BE? 101
THE WORST OF ALL WORLDS-ALL GOODS (FACTORS) ARE PURE PUBLIC GOODS (FACTORS) 102
THE EXISTENCE OF AT LEAST ONE PURE PRIVATE GOOD 103
NONEXCLUSIVE GOODS-THE SAMUELSON MODEL 108
AGGREGATE EXTERNALITIES 119
REFERENCES 124
Chapter 7 - Production Externalities 126
THE CONDENSED MODEL FOR PRODUCTION EXTERNALITIES 127
AGGREGATE PRODUCTION EXTERNALITIES 128
CONCLUDING COMMENTS: THE PROBLEM OF NONCONVEX PRODUCTION POSSIBILITIES 138
REFERENCES 139
Chapter 8 - An Application of Externality Theory: Global Warming 140
CONSUMPTION-PRODUCTION EXTERNALITIES 140
LEGISLATING POLLUTION STANDARDS 143
DEFENSIVE ANTIPOLLUTION STRATEGIES 150
LONG-LIVED EXTERNALITIES 153
REFERENCES 155
Chapter 9 - The Theory of Decreasing Cost Production 156
DECREASING COST IN GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS 157
REFLECTIONS ON U.S. POLICY REGARDING DECREASING COST SERVICES: THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN EQUITY AND EFFICIENCY 169
APPENDIX: RETURNS TO SCALE, HOMOGENEITY, AND DECREASING COST 172
REFERENCES 173
Chapter 10 - The First-Best Theory of Taxation and Transfers 174
PUBLIC CHOICE AND PARETO-OPTIMAL REDISTRIBUTION 175
ALTRUISM, FREE RIDING, AND CROWDING OUT OF PRIVATE CHARITY 181
OTHER MOTIVATIONS FOR REDISTRIBUTIVE TRANSFERS 183
REFERENCES 185
Chapter 11 - Applying First-Best Principles of Taxation-What to Tax and How 188
DESIGNING BROAD-BASED TAXES: THE ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES 188
ABILITY TO PAY: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS 190
HORIZONTAL EQUITY 191
VERTICAL EQUITY 199
REFLECTIONS ON THE HAIG-SIMONS CRITERION IN PRACTICE: THE FEDERAL PERSONAL INCOME TAX 204
THE INFLATIONARY BIAS AGAINST INCOME FROM CAPITAL2020THE ANALYSIS IN THIS SECTION FOLLOWS DIAMOND (1975), PP. 228-230. 209
TAXING REALIZED GAINS: AUERBACH'S RETROSPECTIVE TAXATION PROPOSAL 210
THE TAXATION OF HUMAN CAPITAL 213
SUMMARY 214
REFERENCES 215
Part 3 The Theory of Public Expenditures and Taxation: Second-Best Analysis 216
Chapter 12 - Introduction to Second-Best Analysis 218
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SECOND-BEST THEORY 219
PHILOSOPHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS 223
PREVIEW OF PART III 223
REFERENCES 224
Chapter 13 - The Second-Best Theory of Taxation in One-Consumer Economies with Linear Production Technology 226
GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM PRICE MODELS 227
THE MEASUREMENT OF LOSS FROM DISTORTING TAXES 228
THE OPTIMAL PATTERN OF COMMODITY TAXES 242
SUBSTITUTIONS AMONG TAXES: IMPLICATIONS FOR WELFARE LOSS 246
REFERENCES 249
Chapter 14 - The Second-Best Theory of Taxation with General Production Technologies and Many Consumers 250
A ONE-CONSUMER ECONOMY WITH GENERAL TECHNOLOGY 250
MANY-PERSON ECONOMIES: FIXED PRODUCER PRICES 257
MANY-PERSON ECONOMY WITH GENERAL TECHNOLOGY 263
THE SOCIAL WELFARE IMPLICATIONS OF ANY GIVEN CHANGE IN TAXES 265
REFERENCES 267
Chapter 15 - Taxation under Asymmetric Information 268
LUMP-SUM REDISTRIBUTIONS AND PRIVATE INFORMATION 269
REDISTRIBUTION THROUGH COMMODITY TAXATIONS 270
OPTIMAL TAXATION, PRIVATE INFORMATION, AND SELF-SELECTION CONSTRAINTS 272
OPTIMAL INCOME TAXATION 277
TAX EVASION 281
CONCLUDING REMARKS 285
REFERENCES 286
Chapter 16 - The Theory and Measurement of Tax Incidence 288
TAX INCIDENCE: A PARTIAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS 288
FIRST-BEST THEORY, SECOND-BEST THEORY, AND TAX INCIDENCE 289
METHODOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES IN THE MEASUREMENT OF TAX INCIDENCE 290
THEORETICAL MEASURES OF TAX INCIDENCE 291
THE EQUIVALENCE OF GENERAL TAXES 297
MEASURING TAX INCIDENCE: A MANY-CONSUMER ECONOMY 299
THE HARBERGER ANALYSIS 301
IMPORTANT MODIFICATIONS OF THE HARBERGER MODEL 310
REFERENCES 312
Chapter 17 - Expenditure Incidence and Economy-Wide Incidence Studies 314
THE INCIDENCE OF GOVERNMENT TRANSFER PAYMENTS 316
TAX AND EXPENDITURE INCIDENCE WITH DECREASING-COST SERVICES 317
SAMUELSONIAN NONEXCLUSIVE GOODS 317
ECONOMY-WIDE INCIDENCE STUDIES 320
THE SOURCES AND USES APPROACH 321
COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELS OF TAX INCIDENCE 330
DYNAMIC TAX INCIDENCE 331
APPENDIX 339
REFERENCES 344
Chapter 18 - The Second-Best Theory of Public Expenditures: Overview 348
REFERENCES 350
Chapter 19 - Transfer Payments and Private Information 352
FIRST-BEST INSIGHTS 352
CASH TRANSFERS: BROAD BASED OR TARGETED? 353
PRIVATE INFORMATION AND IN-KIND TRANSFERS 357
REFERENCES 365
Chapter 20 - Social Insurance: Medical Care 366
THE DEMAND FOR INSURANCE 366
WITHOUT INSURANCE 367
WITH INSURANCE 367
PRIVATE OR ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION 369
MORAL HAZARD 370
THE COMPETITIVE OUTCOME 371
THE PUBLIC POLICY RESPONSE 372
EX POST MORAL HAZARD44THE ANALYSIS OF EX POST MORAL HAZARD IS A VARIATION OF THE ANALYSIS IN PAULY (1968). 372
DEDUCTIBLES AND CO-PAYMENTS 373
THE VALUE OF ACCESS 373
ADVERSE SELECTION 374
EX POST VERSUS EX ANTE EFFICIENCY 374
THE NATURE OF ADVERSE SELECTION 375
ADVANTAGEOUS SELECTION 376
A TWO-POLICY MODEL 377
IS AN EQUILIBRIUM POSSIBLE? 378
POLICY RESPONSE TO ADVERSE SELECTION 379
U.S. POLICIES 380
MEDICARE AND MEDICAID 380
PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT 381
REFERENCES 382
Chapter 21 - Social Insurance: Social Security 384
THE U.S. SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM 385
SOCIAL SECURITY AS SOCIAL INSURANCE 386
THE MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS OF SOCIAL SECURITY 387
SOCIAL SECURITY AND SAVING 387
THE STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY: CONSUMPTION, PRODUCTION, AND MARKET CLEARANCE 388
CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS 398
REFERENCES 399
Chapter 22 - Externalities in a Second-Best Environment 402
THE SECOND-BEST ALLOCATION OF SAMUELSONIAN NONEXCLUSIVE GOODS 402
THE COASE THEOREM, BARGAINING, AND PRIVATE INFORMATION 406
REFERENCES 412
Chapter 23 - Decreasing Costs and the Theory of the Second-Best-The Boiteux Problem 414
THE BOITEUX PROBLEM: THE MULTIPRODUCT DECREASING-COST FIRM 414
CONSTRAINED GOVERNMENT AGENCIES 419
REFERENCES 420
Chapter 24 - General Production Rules in a Second-Best Environment 422
THE DIAMOND-MIRRLEES PROBLEM: ONE-CONSUMER ECONOMY 423
PRODUCTION DECISIONS WITH NONOPTIMAL TAXES 426
SECOND-BEST PRODUCTION RULES WHEN EQUITY MATTERS 430
CONCLUDING COMMENTS 433
REFERENCES 433
Chapter 25 - Behavioral Public Sector Economics 434
THE BEHAVIORAL ANOMALIES 434
PROSPECT THEORY: THE REJECTION OF EXPECTED UTILITY MAXIMIZATION 435
PRESENT-BIASED PREFERENCES: SELF-CONTROL ISSUES 435
SOCIAL PREFERENCES 435
FRAMING EFFECTS OR CONTEXT DEPENDENCE 436
MAINSTREAM REACTIONS 437
POSITIVE AND NORMATIVE PUBLIC SECTOR ECONOMICS 439
PROSPECT THEORY 440
APPLYING PROSPECT THEORY 442
NUDGES AND STANDARD POLICY PRESCRIPTIONS 443
STANDARD AGENTS ONLY 443
BEHAVIORAL AGENTS ONLY 444
A MIXTURE OF STANDARD AND BEHAVIORAL AGENTS 445
CAN MAINSTREAM AND BEHAVIORAL ECONOMIC THEORY BE RECONCILED? 446
REFINEMENTS 447
REFERENCES 447
Part 4 Fiscal Federalism 450
Chapter 26 - Optimal Federalism: Sorting the Functions of Government within the Fiscal Hierarchy 452
THE POTENTIAL FOR INCOMPATIBILITIES AND DESTRUCTIVE COMPETITION 452
SORTING THE FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT WITHIN THE FISCAL HIERARCHY 454
OPTIMAL FEDERALISM AND THE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION 457
REFERENCES 463
Chapter 27 - Optimal Federalism: The Sorting of People within the Fiscal Hierarchy 464
THE MODELING DIMENSIONS 465
JURISDICTION FORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE THEORY OF CLUBS 466
FIXED COMMUNITIES AND HOUSING SITES: ADDING THE HOUSING MARKET 470
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE 474
MOBILITY AND REDISTRIBUTION 477
REFERENCES 482
Chapter 28 - The Role of Grants-in-Aid in a Federalist System of Governments 484
OPTIMAL FEDERALISM AND GRANTS-IN-AID: NORMATIVE ANALYSIS 484
ALTERNATIVE DESIGN CRITERIA 487
ESTIMATING THE DEMAND FOR STATE AND LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICES 490
THE RESPONSE TO GRANTS-IN-AID 498
REFERENCES 503
Chapter 29 - International Public Finance 504
THE TAXATION OF MOBILE CAPITAL 505
SUMMARY 512
MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES 512
CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS 517
REFERENCES 517
Appendix 518
THE INTENSIVE AND EXTENSIVE MARGINS 518
THE DISCRETE MODEL 518
THE EXTENSIVE MARGIN 519
THE INTENSIVE MARGIN 519
DESIGNING TAX/TRANSFER PROGRAMS 520
A TRADE-OFF BETWEEN EFFICIENCY AND EQUITY? 521
REFERENCES 522
Index 524
Introduction to Normative Public Sector Theory
Abstract
Chapter 1 describes the norms that underlie the mainstream economic theory of the public sector and then discusses how these norms dictate the fundamental normative questions within the theories of public expenditures, taxation, and fiscal federalism. The chapter also considers the competing perspectives of public choice and behavioral public finance.
Keywords
Asymmetric information; Behavioral economics; Consumer sovereignty; Decentralized policies; Decreasing cost production; End-results equity; Externalities; Fiscal federalism; Humanism; Pareto optimality; Process equity; Public choice; Two fundamental theorems of welfare economics
Chapter Outline
The Fundamental Normative Questions 4
Government Expenditure Theory: Philosophical Underpinnings 5
Humanism, Consumer Sovereignty, Capitalism, and the Government 5
The Legitimate Functions of Government 6
The Goals of Government Policy 6
Equity 6
Government Expenditure Theory and Market Failure 9
The Fundamental Theorems of Welfare Economics 9
The Allocation of Resources 10
Private or Asymmetric Information 10
The Government Sector in the United States 12
The Theory of Public Choice 15
Summary 18
References 19
The Fundamental Normative Questions
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.11.2014 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Steuern / Steuerrecht |
Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-12-416033-6 / 0124160336 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-12-416033-0 / 9780124160330 |
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