Description
In latest times not only have traditional areas of public economics such as taxation, public expenditure, public sector pricing, benefit cost analysis, and fiscal federalism thrown up new challenges but entirely new areas of research and inquiry have emerged. This second edition builds upon the strengths of the previous edition and comprises results of research on new areas such as global public goods, environmental taxation and carbon permits trading and the complexities of corporate taxation in a all of a sudden globalizing world.
The book is a brand new and comprehensive exposition of public economics. It includes extended discussions on topics of particular interest to developing countries and covers subjects such as:
- taxation in an economy with a big informal sector
- the challenges of the use of VAT
- the use of randomized evaluation
- theory of public expenditure and public goods including global public goods
- incentive effects of taxation and tax incidence
This book discusses the major traditional areas of taxation and public expenditure in addition to emerging issues with regards to public economics in the globalized world economy. It is going to be useful as a reference and update at the brand new literature on public economics for professional economists and policymakers, in addition to providing invaluable information as a basic text for undergraduate and graduate students in public economics.