Public Finance and Public Policy

Seventh Edition

Publication Date: June 01, 2022

Paperback ISBN: 9781319466923

Pages: 852

Think clearly about problem, policy and politics

This textbook is guided by the author’s contagious 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. Gruber covers the fundamentals of public finance with an emphasis on...
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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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