Coercion and Social Welfare in Public Finance (eBook, PDF)

Economic and Political Perspectives
Redaktion: Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge

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Produktbeschreibung

Although coercion is a fundamental and unavoidable part of our social lives, economists have not offered an integrated analysis of its role in the public economy. The essays in this book focus on coercion arising from the operation of the fiscal system, a major part of the public sector. Collective choices on fiscal matters emerge from and have all the essential characteristics of social interaction, including the necessity to force unwanted actions on some citizens. This was recognized in an older tradition in public finance which can still serve as a starting point for modern work. The contributors to the volume recognize this tradition, but add to it by using contemporary frameworks to study a set of related issues concerning fiscal coercion and economic welfare. These issues range from the compatibility of an open access society with the original Wicksellian vision to the productivity of coercion in experimental games.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139990653
• Artikelnr.: 41065917

Inhaltsangabe

1. Coercion, welfare, and the study of public finance Jorge
Martinez-Vazquez and Stanley L. Winer; Part I. Violence, Structured
Anarchy, and the State: 2. The constitution of coercion: Wicksell,
violence, and the ordering of society John J. Wallis; 3. Proprietary public
finance: on its emergence and evolution out of anarchy Stergios Skaperdas;
Part II. Voluntary and Coercive Transactions in Welfare Analysis: 4.
Coercion, taxation, and voluntary association Roger D. Congleton; 5.
Kaldor-Hicks coercion, Coasian bargaining, and the state Michael C. Munger;
Part III. Coercion in Public Sector Economics: Theory and Application: 6.
Non-coercion, efficiency and incentive compatibility in public goods John
O. Ledyard; 7. Social welfare and coercion in public finance Stanley L.
Winer, George Tridimas and Walter Hettich; 8. Lindahl fiscal incidence and
the measurement of coercion Saloua Sehili and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez; 9.
Fiscal coercion in federal systems, with special attention to highly
divided societies Giorgio Brosio; Part IV. Coercion in the Laboratory: 10.
Cooperating to resist coercion: an experimental study Lucy F. Ackert, Ann
B. Gillette and Mark Rider; 11. Partial coercion, conditional cooperation,
and self-commitment in voluntary contributions to public goods Elena
Cettolin and Arno Riedl.