Public choice, public finance, and public policy
Subtitle: essays in honour of Alan Peacock
By: edited by David Greenaway and G.K. Shaw.
Contributors: Peacock, Alan T., 1922-; Greenaway, David.; Shaw, G. K. 1938-
Publisher: B. Blackwell
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Oxford, OX, UK; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Peacock, Alan T., 1922-  -- Congresses.; Finance, Public -- Congresses.; Economic policy -- Congresses.
Notes: "Alan T. Peacock: bibliography, 1949-84": p. [193]-201.
Bibliography: p. [202]-211.
Papers from a conference held at the University of Buckingham, Sept. 5-7, 1984.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Public finance and distributive justice / Richard A. Musgrave; title: Marginal cost pricing / Mark Blaug; title: Towards a theory of bureaucratic behaviour / Charles Rowley and Robert Elgin; title: Forced loans  / Anibal Cavaco-Silva; title: On the cost disease and its true policy implications for the arts / Hilda Baumol and William Baumol; title: The unwithered welfare state / Thomas Wilson; title: Public policy aspects of the economics of ageing, or The economics of dependence revisited / Alan Williams; title: Public funding of universities / Keith Lumsden and Alex Scott; title: The efficacy of macroeconomic policy / Maurice Peston; title: The theory of social contract and the EEC / Francesco Forte; title: International agencies and the Peacock critique / John Williamson; title: Real exchange rates and economic development / Herbert Giersch.