Chapters include: "Income distribution and welfare programs", "State and local government expenditures" and "Health economics and private health insurance".

The second edition of Public Finance and Public Policy retains the first edition's themes of investigation of responsibilities and limitations of government. Th

In this volume, based on a week-long symposium at the University of Munich's Center for Economic Studies, two leading scholars of governmental economics debate

Argues that public finance--the study of the government's role in economics--should incorporate principles from behavior economics and other branches of psychol

Presenting emphases on and approaches to issues such as government spending, reporting, pricing and fiscal federalism, the Handbook of Public Finance demonstrat