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Controlling Public Expenditure
Edited by John Wanna, Lotte Jensen, Jouke de Vries
One of the most important functions of modern government is to marshal and deploy resources to achieve desired objectives and outcomes. This task is overseen by the Central Budget Agencies (such as Ministries of Finance and Treasuries) w... -
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Political Economy and Public Finance
Edited by Stanley L. Winer, Hirofumi Shibata
There is a long-standing difference amongst public economists between those who think that collective choice must be formally acknowledged, and those who derive their policy recommendations from a social planning framework in which polit...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Public Finance in Developing and Transitional Countries
Edited by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, James Alm
It is hard to think of anyone who has contributed so much and so widely to research in international public finance in the last 40 years as has Richard Bird. This volume of essays emerged from a conference dedicated to him. It also expan... -
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The Distribution of Tax Burdens
Edited by Don Fullerton, Gilbert E. Metcalf
The Distribution of Tax Burdens brings together for the first time the most important published papers on tax incidence written in the past 50 years. The editors, two leading scholars in public finance, have written an authoritative intr... -
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The Economics of Budget Deficits
Edited by Charles K. Rowley, William F. Shughart II, Robert D. Tollison
The Economics of Budget Deficits provides a comprehensive overview of the scholarly literature exploring the causes and consequences of deficit spending and the public debt. Incorporating classical, Keynesian and public choice analyses o... -
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Cost–Benefit Analysis
Edited by Arnold C. Harberger, Glenn P. Jenkins
Cost–Benefit Analysis presents an authoritative collection of the most important published articles in the field together with an extensive new introduction by the editors. Whilst focusing on the practical side, looking at applications s... -
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Private Initiatives in Infrastructure
Edited by Sanford V. Berg, Michael G. Pollitt, Masatsugu Tsuji
Public-private collaboration in infrastructure projects takes place in a variety of institutional frameworks worldwide. This volume considers the different cultural, political and legal settings in the US, UK, Japan and other countries a...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Federal Intergovernmental Grants and the States
Shama Gamkhar
intergovernmental grants in the US since the 1970s. This period spans six presidential administrations and encompasses a diverse set of political and economic conditions. Containing original research this book contributes to critical ass... -
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Political Economy in Federal States
Stanley L. Winer
Federal states are lively sources of data on the economics and politics of the public sector. In this rich collection of essays, some of which are previously unpublished, Stanley Winer makes use of these data from Canada, the United Stat... -
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Local Public Finance in Europe
Edited by Bernard Dafflon
Most countries apply some form of restrictions to local government budgeting and borrowing, but in various forms and to varying degrees. These restrictions are considered necessary components of a fiscal federalism involving some sort of...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Financing Transportation Networks
David M. Levinson
Pollution, alternative fuels, congestion, intelligent transportation systems, and the shift from construction to maintenance all call for a reconsideration of the existing highway revenue mechanisms, especially the gas tax. David Levinso...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Utility Regulation and Competition Policy
Edited by Colin Robinson
In this book, the latest volume in the annual series published in association with the London Business School and the Institute of Economic Affairs, some of the main issues in UK and EU utility regulation and competition policy are discu...eBook:Find out more$40.00