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Public Finance and Public Policy

Sixth Edition| ©2019 Jonathan Gruber

We are currently engaged in the most fundamental debate about the role of government in decades, and who better than Jonathan Gruber to guide students through the particulars in the new edition of his best-selling text, Public Finance and Public Policy, 6e.

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We are currently engaged in the most fundamental debate about the role of government in decades, and who better than Jonathan Gruber to guide students through the particulars in the new edition of his best-selling text, Public Finance and Public Policy, 6e.

The new edition details ongoing policy debates, with special focus on the largest tax reform in 30 years. New topics include universal basic income, the legalization of pot, and congestion pricing. And, of course, there is an extensive, in-depth discussion of the debate over health care.

At the heart of this new edition is the author’s belief that at no other time has it been so important to know the facts, to distinguish facts from falsehoods, and to be thinking clearly about problem, policy, and politics. The sixth edition delivers on all counts.

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Rigorous theory, cutting-edge empirical evidence, and abundant policy-oriented applications

We are currently engaged in the most fundamental debate about the role of government in decades, and who better than Jonathan Gruber to guide students through the particulars in the new edition of his best-selling text, Public Finance and Public Policy, 6e.

The new edition details ongoing policy debates, with special focus on the largest tax reform in 30 years. New topics include universal basic income, the legalization of pot, and congestion pricing. And, of course, there is an extensive, in-depth discussion of the debate over health care.

At the heart of this new edition is the author’s belief that at no other time has it been so important to know the facts, to distinguish facts from falsehoods, and to be thinking clearly about problem, policy, and politics. The sixth edition delivers on all counts.

Features

Questions to Keep in Mind
Questions at the start of each chapter, alert students to the chapter’s “big ideas,” thus helping them organize the many ideas presented in the chapter.

Integrated Applications
The Applications in this text allow students to step back from the main text and appreciate the policy relevance of the material. These applications are integrated directly with the text, rather than set aside, so that students understand the importance of applying the material they are learning.

Empirical Evidence Boxes
For instructors who wish to explore in more depth the nature of the empirical findings mentioned in the text, Empirical Evidence boxes are set aside from the main text to explain carefully the research process that generates the major empirical findings in public finance.

Integration of Relevant Statistics
Throughout the text, and in a number of graphs and tables, this text presents the statistics about the role of the government that emphasize the importance of this course. It is much easier to explain to students why they should care about social insurance, for example, when they clearly see graphics that illustrate the rise in that activity as a share of the U.S. government.

Quick Hints
Throughout the text are a variety of highlighted Quick Hints to emphasize the intuition of key theoretical points that students often find difficult: How does one decide where to draw deadweight loss triangles? Why is the subsidy to employer-provided health insurance a subsidy to employees and not to employers? How can the income effect of higher wages cause lower levels of labor supply?

Mathematical Appendices
The text explains the material primarily through intuition and graphics, with relatively little reliance on mathematics.
Nevertheless, many instructors want to use mathematics to make key points about tax incidence, public goods provision, adverse selection in insurance markets, optimal taxation, and other topics. Five appendices develop the mathematics of these topics. Two additional appendices focus on the details of empirical analysis.

Marginal Definitions
Key terms are boldfaced throughout the text, and marginal definitions allow students to focus on the key concepts.
Full-Color Graphics Full-color graphics allow students to better understand the graphical analysis that is so often confusing to them.

Highlights
At the end of each chapter is a summary of the key themes and concepts from the material in that chapter.

Questions and Problems
At the end of each chapter are an average of 15 questions and problems. Questions on empirical analysis that draw on material in Chapter 3 are denoted separately with an e, and there is a careful delineation between basic and more advanced problems.

New to This Edition

The dynamic public policy environment of the past few years required a thorough updating of most aspects of the book. All statistics, data-related tables and figures, and applications have been updated completely to reflect the most recent available data.In addition, a number of major changes were made throughout the book, including new examples, updating of existing chapter introductions, revisions to the Application and Empirical Evidence boxed features, and a number of new and thoroughly updated text discussions.

EXTENSIVE REVISIONS REFLECTING CURRENT PUBLIC POLICY DEBATES
Any public finance textbook must pay a great deal of attention to issues of externalities and public goods, taxation, and direct government spending, and this book is no exception. Given their importance to the current political discourse, these chapters have undergone the heaviest revisions in this edition:
Chapter 1, “Why Study Public Finance,” Chapter 6, “Externalities in Action: Environmental and Health Externalities,” Chapter 9, “The Political Economy,” Chapter 16, “Health Insurance II: Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Care Reform,” Chapter 17, “Income Distribution and Welfare Programs,” Chapter 18, “Taxation: How it Works and What it Means,” and Chapter 24, “Taxation of Business Income.”

Revisions in the most heavily revised chapters include:

  • Chapter 1 coverage of the ACA has been updated to reflect recent developments (including the impact of the Trump administration). Includes all-new Section 1.3: "The Questions of Public Finance are Front and Center in Health Care Debates" (which replaces 5e section 1.3 on why study public finance).
  • The discussion of environmental policy has been extensively updated and revised in Chapters 5 and 6. The discussion of Kyoto has shifted to more current coverage of the Paris Agreement, and there is a new overview of the positions upheld by both sides of the global warming debate in Chapter 5. The Chapter 6
    opener has been revised to address Trump administration positions on environmental policy (C02 emissions in particular) with regard to the EPA and, in particular, the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP). Other changes to Chapter 6 include a new running example on particulate emissions (which replaces the example on acid rain), and a new section: "The Paris Agreement and the Future" which covers the details and impact of that global agreement.
  • Chapter 9 now includes an entirely new section: "Increasing Polarization in American Politics" that documents the dramatic polarization in the US. System and provides a detailed discussion of the leading
    explanations for this divergence across parties. The chapter now includes the key term: gerrymandering,
    and a discussion of its implications, and new coverage on the Trump administration’s interest in ending the
    earmarks ban.
  • The discussion and data in both of the health care chapters (Chapters 15 and 16) have been thoroughly updated: on GDP, ACA, health care expenditures in the U.S. and globally, the high cost of medication, health-insurance costs, and more. New coverage of inefficiencies in the U.S health care system, has been
    added in Chapter 15. In Chapter 16, coverage of the ACA has been updated throughout, and the section on
    ";Early Evidence on the Effects of the ACA" has been thoroughly revamped and updated. And there is a new section: "The ACA Runs into Trouble."
  • Chapter 17 has been updated to reflect recent debates over redistribution policy in the United States, in particular including an entirely new section on the concept of “Universal Basic Income,” including relevant facts and a new empirical application. 
  • The Chapter 18 opener has been revised to cover Trump’s 2017 tax reform, and the chapter itself has been revised to include details of the law and an analysis of its impact, with details on changes to the CTC and coverage of alternative proposals. Chapter 24 now reflects recent changes to the tax code: there’s a new opener on the 2017 Trump tax overhaul and a new section on the Treatment of International Corporate
    Income.
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Table of Contents

PART I Introduction and Background
1       Why Study Public Finance? 
2       Theoretical Tools of Public Finance 
3       Empirical Tools of Public Finance 
4       Budget Analysis and Deficit Financing 
PART II Externalities and Public Goods
5       Externalities: Problems and Solutions 
6       Externalities in Action: Environmental and Health Externalities 
7       Public Goods 
8       Cost-Benefit Analysis 
9       Political Economy 
10     State and Local Government Expenditures 
11     Education 
PART III Social Insurance and Redistribution
12     Social Insurance: The New Function of Government 
13     Social Security 
14     Unemployment Insurance, Disability Insurance, and Workers’ Compensation 
15     Health Insurance I: Health Economics and Private Health Insurance 
16     Health Insurance II: Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Care Reform 
17     Income Distribution and Welfare Programs 
PART IV Taxation in Theory and Practice
18     Taxation: How It Works and What It Means 
19     The Equity Implications of Taxation: Tax Incidence 
20     Tax Inefficiencies and Their Implications for Optimal Taxation 
21     Taxes on Labor Supply 
22     Taxes on Savings 
23     Taxes on Risk Taking and Wealth 
24     Taxation of Business Income 
25     Fundamental Tax Reform and Consumption Taxation 
 
Glossary G-1
References R-1
Index I-1
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Dr. Jonathan Gruber is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992.  He is also the Director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economics Research, where he is a research Associate.  He is a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics. Dr. Gruber received his B.S. in Economics from MIT and his PH.D. in Economics from Harvard.  He has received and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, a FIRST award from the National Institute on Aging, and the Kenneth Arrow Award for the Best Paper in Health Economics in 1994.  He was also one of the 15 scientists nationwide to receive the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award from the National Science Foundation in 1995.  Dr. Gruber was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2005, and in 2006, he received the American Society of Health Economists’ Inaugural Medial for the best health economist in the nation ages 40 and under.  Dr. Gruber’s research focuses on the areas of public finance and health economics.  He has published more than 125 research articles and has edited 6 research volumes.
 During the 1997-1998 academic year, Dr. Gruber was on leave from MIT, serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department.  He was a key architect of Massachusetts’ ambitious health reform effort, and in 2006, he became an inaugural member of the Health Connector Board, the main implementing body for the effort.  In that year, he was named the nineteenth-most powerful person in health care in the United States by Modern Healthcare Magazine.  He acted as a consultant on several presidential campaigns and is considered by the Washington Post to be one of the “most influential” health care experts in America.

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