Public Finance Books

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31. Essentials of Advanced Macroeconomic Theory

    By Ola Olsson

    Series: Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance

    Trying to summarize the essentials of macroeconomic theory in the wake of the financial crisis that has shaken not only Western economies but also the macroeconomic profession is no easy task. In particular, the notion that markets are self-correcting and always in equilibrium appears to have taken...

    Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge
32. Studies in the History of Public Economics

    Edited by Gilbert Faccarello, Richard Sturn

    Many important economic and political debates today refer to the nature and the role of the State: should governments intervene in the economy and interfere with the operation of markets? In which occasions, and how? In order to better understand these questions and the controversies they have...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
33. Contested Capitalism

    The political origins of financial institutions

    By Richard W. Carney

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

    This book examines the political origins of financial institutions across fifteen developed democracies, with focused case studies on the US, France, Japan, Austria, and Germany. The institutional arrangements of financial systems are widely seen as a central distinguishing feature of ‘varieties of...

    Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
34. Hybrid Economic-Environmental Accounts

    Edited by Valeria Costantini, Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

    National Accounting Matrices of Environmental Accounts (NAMEA) tables are used to analyze a range of environmental pressures and economic data resulting from consumption and production patterns – helping us gain a far better notion of the consequences of individuals’, households’ and firms’ actions...

    Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
35. Health Economics

    An Industrial Organization Perspective

    By Xavier Martinez-Giralt, Pedro Barros

    Research in Health Economics has developed into a separate discipline during the last 25 years. All this intense research activity has come about through the teaching of courses on health economics, mostly at graduate level. However, the Industrial Organization aspects of the health care...

    Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
36. Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in Latin America

    Edited by Luigi Bernardi, Alberto Barreix, Anna Marenzi, Paola Profeta

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of tax systems and tax reforms in a number of Latin American countries since the early 1990’s, including Argentina and Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico, Paraguay, Colombia, Chile and Uruguay. The authors present and discuss tax systems from a broad...

    Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
37. Cost-Benefit Analysis

    Cases and Materials

    By Euston Quah, Raymond Toh

    Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is the systematic and analytical process of comparing benefits and costs in evaluating the desirability of a project or programme, often of a social nature and for society as a whole. CBA is fundamental to government decision-making and can be an effective tool for...

    Published October 19th 2011 by Routledge
38. Financial Exclusion and the Poverty Trap

    Overcoming Deprivation in the Inner City

    By Pamela Lenton, Paul Mosley

    Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

    The persistence of poverty hurts us all, and attacking poverty is a major policy objective everywhere. In Britain, the main political parties have an anti-poverty mandate and in particular an agreed commitment to eliminate child poverty by 2020, but there is controversy over how this should be done...

    Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
39. Government Budgeting and Financial Management in Practice

    Logics to Make Sense of Ambiguity

    By Gerald J. Miller

    Series: Public Administration and Public Policy

    The right turn in U. S. politics has increased conflict over both ends and means in government budgeting and financial management. Overlapping and competing views of the way the world works drive finance officials’ practice. Taking a new look at public financial management that acknowledges the...

    Published September 27th 2011 by CRC Press
40. Private Sector Involvement in Urban Solid Waste Collection

    UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

    By Sampson Oduro-Kwarteng

    The private sector involvement in public service is intended to achieve efficiency gain and better service quality through increasing private sector finance and expertise. However, these benefits are most often not achieved in developing countries due to investment risk of private finance, and...

    Published September 27th 2011 by CRC Press