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Public or Private Goods?
Edited by Brigitte Unger, Daan van der Linde, Michael Getzner
The book explores the core public tasks that the state has traditionally provided but which increasingly are being privatized and subsumed by the private sector. The night-watchman state role of providing security is instead offered by p...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Political Economy of Public Debt
Richard M. Salsman
How have the most influential political economists of the past three centuries theorized about sovereign borrowing and shaped its now widespread use? That important question receives a comprehensive answer in this original work, featurin...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Future of Federalism
Edited by Richard Eccleston, Richard Krever
The crisis and its aftermath had a dramatic short-term effect on federal relations and, as the twelve case studies in this volume show, set in place a new set of socio-political factors that are shaping the longer-run process of institut...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Multi-level Finance and the Euro Crisis
Edited by Ehtisham Ahmad, Massimo Bordignon, Giorgio Brosio
Representing a unique contribution to the analysis and discussion of the unfolding Eurozone crisis in terms of the relationship between central and local government, this book addresses a number of important fiscal and political economy ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Measuring the Global Shadow Economy
Colin C. Williams, Friedrich Schneider
This book brings together two leading researchers in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of the shadow economy from a global perspective. Reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of different ways of measuring the informal se...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A Handbook of Alternative Theories of Public Economics
Edited by Francesco Forte, Ram Mudambi, Pietro Maria Navarra
This comprehensive and thought-provoking Handbook reviews public sector economics from pluralist perspectives that either complement or reach beyond mainstream views. The book takes a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach, drawing on ...eBook:Find out more$63.16
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The Global Financial Crisis and its Budget Impacts in OECD Nations
Edited by John Wanna, Evert A. Lindquist, Jouke de Vries
The global financial crisis of 2007–09 constituted the biggest shock to the economies of the OECD nations since the Second World War and caused most of their governments to move into intense crisis mode. They made significant adjustments...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Multilevel Finance
Edited by Ehtisham Ahmad, Giorgio Brosio
This Handbook explores and explains new developments in the “second generation” theory of public finance, in which benevolent rulers and governments have been replaced by personally motivated politicians and the associated institutions. ...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Confronting the Shadow Economy
Colin C. Williams
Beginning with a review of the extent of undeclared work, the author discusses the discrepancies between regions and the potential impacts of the economic crisis, comparing the nature of the potential solutions available with those actua...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Taxing Banks Fairly
Edited by Sajid M. Chaudhry, Andrew W Mullineux
Taxing Banks Fairly offers an ethical perspective on bank taxation and financial stability to complement the traditional political economy approach. It also considers how a bank levy or financial activities tax, could be used to ensure t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Taxation and Development: The Weakest Link?
Edited by Richard M. Bird, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Taxation and Development highlights the importance of better understanding the ways in which taxes and expenditure are linked. Focusing on developing countries, the book argues for a broader approach to the topic, with a secondary focus ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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State and Local Financial Instruments
Craig L. Johnson, Martin J. Luby, Tima T. Moldogaziev
The ability of a nation to finance its basic infrastructure is essential to its economic well-being in the 21st century. This book covers the municipal securities market in the United States from the perspective of its primary capital fi...eBook:Find out more$40.00