Readings in public finance
By: edited by Amaresh Bagchi.
Contributors: Bagchi, A.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780195669626; 9780195669626
Subjects: Finance, Public.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I. Role of government in the economy: The nature of the fiscal state : the roots of my thinking / Richard A. Musgrave; title: The constitution of economic policy / James M. Buchanan; title: Public goods / Agnar Sandmo; title: Club goods / Martin C. McGuire; title: Externalities / U. Sankar; title: Merit goods / Richard A. Musgrave.; title: II. Theory of public choice: Public choice / V.K. Borooah; title: The role of government in economic development / Joseph E. Sitglitz.; title: III. Financing government: theory of taxation: Taxation and efficiency ; Taxation and equity / Howell H. Zee; title: Optimal taxation : an introduction to the literature / Agnar Sandmo; title: Optimal taxation and optimal tax systems / Joel Slemrod; title: The economic theory of tax compliance with special reference to tax compliance costs / Arindam Das-Gupta; title: Introduction to value added tax / Raja J. Chelliah ... [et al.].; title: IV. Macrolinkages of fiscal policy: Does fiscal policy matter? / Alan Blinder and Robert M. Solow; title: Economics of government budget constraint / Stanley Fischel and William Easterly; title: Sustainability of public debt / Indira Rajaraman and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay; title: Budget deficit : sustainability, solvency, and optimality / Mihir Rakshit; title: The meaning and significance of the fiscal deficit / Raja J. Chelliah.; title: V. Fiscal federalism: An essay on fiscal federalism / Wallace E. Oates; title: Changing contours in federal fiscal arrangement in India / M. Govinda Rao; title: Centre-state fiscal relations in India / George A. Akerlof.; title: VI. Epilogue: Public finance and public choice : two contrasting visions of the state / Amaresh Bagchi.