A Handbook of Alternative Theories of Public Economics

Edited by Francesco Forte, Ram Mudambi and Pietro Maria Navarra

Abstract: This comprehensive and thought-provoking Handbook reviews public sector economics from pluralist perspectives that either complement or reach beyond mainstream views. The book takes a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach, drawing on economic elements in the fields of philosophy, sociology, psychology, history and law.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
ISBN: 9781781004708
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The neglected importance of Austrian thought in public economics , pp 21-33: Pascal Salin
Ch 2 In defense of the euro: an Austrian perspective (with a critique of the errors of the ECB and the interventionism of Brussels) , pp 34-59: Jesús Huerta de Soto
Ch 3 Marxian public economics (with a comment by Massimo Florio) , pp 60-103: Giuseppe Coco and Silvia Fedeli
Ch 4 The Laffer curve muddle , pp 104-115: Vito Tanzi
Ch 5 Deficits, tax burden and unemployment , pp 116-140: Silvia Fedeli and Francesco Forte
Ch 6 Theories of justice and empirical results , pp 143-159: Manfred J. Holler and Martin Leroch
Ch 7 Strategic voting and happiness , pp 160-176: Francesca Acacia and Maria Cubel
Ch 8 Religious parties , pp 177-197: Dennis C. Mueller
Ch 9 Western religion, social ethics and public economics , pp 198-226: Nils Goldschmidt and André Habisch
Ch 10 Indigenes, immigration, and integration: a welfare-economics approach to minority rights , pp 227-242: Bengt-Arne Wickström
Ch 11 The role of memory in modeling social and economic cycles of extreme events , pp 245-259: Michele Caputo
Ch 12 Expanding the theory of tax compliance from individual to group motivations , pp 260-277: James Alm
Ch 13 The political economy of news media: theory, evidence and open issues , pp 278-320: Francesco Sobbrio
Ch 14 How significant is yardstick competition among governments? Three reasons to dig deeper , pp 323-341: Pierre Salmon
Ch 15 Optimal size of governments and the optimal ratio between current and capital expenditure , pp 342-367: Francesco Forte and Cosimo Magazzino
Ch 16 Government failures in railway public policy: the British case , pp 368-399: Mark Casson
Ch 17 Cognitive dissonance, iron triangle and rent seeking: sequester and the fiscal cliff , pp 400-412: Gordon Brady
Ch 18 Cognitive dissonance, efficient and inefficient rent seeking and public aid to the movies , pp 413-440: Francesco Forte and Michela Mantovani
Ch 19 Bargaining in international conflicts resolution: UN involvement and conflict settlement , pp 443-471: Dario Maimone Ansaldo Patti and Daniel Montolio
Ch 20 The norm of profits extraction from corruption by bureaucracy and market size , pp 472-484: Arkadi Koziashvili, Shmuel Nitzan and Yossef Tobo
Ch 21 Alternative views on the origins and impact of the informal economy , pp 485-502: Giorgio Brosio, Juan Pablo Jiménez and Roberto Zanola
Ch 22 Long-run and shorter-run criminal cycles in the public economics of public bads , pp 503-542: Michele Caputo, Francesco Forte and Michela Mantovani

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