David Miles / Ian Preston (eds.)

The Economics of Public Spending

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Produktbeschreibung

This work investigates the extent of government involvement in the economy and traces its historical record. It unites articles previously published in "Fiscal Studies", each one addressing a different area of expenditure.

This work investigates the extent of government involvement in the economy and its rationale, tracing its historical record. The book unites articles previously published in "Fiscal Studies", each one addressing a different area of expenditure and written by an economist with an international reputation in that field. Both the data and the relevant theory are analysed and an introduction investigates the overall role of the public sector, discussing the general theory of public expenditure.

James Banks and Carl Emmerson, Public and Private Pension Spending - Principles, Practice and the Need for Reform; Carol Propper, Expenditure on Healthcare in the UK - A Review of the Issues; Jayasri Dutta, James Sefton, and Martin Weale, Education and Pu

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199260324
• ISBN-10: 019926032X
• Artikelnr.: 66596914

Autorenporträt

Miles, David (Imperial College Management School, London) / Myles, Gareth (Department of Economics, University of Exeter) / Preston, Ian (Department of Economics, University College, London)

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: David Miles, Gareth Myles, and Ian Preston: Introduction
* 2: James Banks and Carl Emmerson: Public and Private Pension
Spending: Principles, Practice and the Need for Reform
* 3: Carol Propper: Expenditure on Healthcare in the UK: A Review of
the Issues
* 4: Jayasri Dutta, James Sefton, and Martin Weale: Education and
Public Policy
* 5: Bruce D. Meyer: Unemployment and Workers' Compensation Programmes:
Rationale, Design, Labour Supply, and Income Support
* 6: Ann Dryden Witte and Robert Witt: What We Spend and What We Get:
Public and Private Provision of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
* 7: Todd Sandler and James C. Murdoch: On Sharing NATO Defence Burdens
in the 1990s and Beyond
* 8: David Pearce and Charles Palmer: Public and Private Spending for
Environmental Protection: A Cross-Country Policy Analysis
* 9: Clifford Winston: Government Failure in Urban Transportation
* 10: Alan Peacock: Public Financing of the Arts in England
* 11: Paul Stoneman: Government Spending on Research and Development in
the UK