Coercion and social welfare in public finance economic and political perspectives
"Coercion is a fundamental and unavoidable part of our social lives. Economists, however, have not yet offered a fully integrated analysis of its role in either the private or the public economy. The essays in this book are different. Since collective choices on fiscal matters emerge from and h...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press
2014.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39759982*spi |
| Sumario: | "Coercion is a fundamental and unavoidable part of our social lives. Economists, however, have not yet offered a fully integrated analysis of its role in either the private or the public economy. The essays in this book are different. Since collective choices on fiscal matters emerge from and have all the essential characteristics of social interaction, including the necessity of coercion, and because there is an older tradition of work on coercion in public finance that we can build upon, the contributors to this book focus directly on the study of coercion arising through the operation of the fiscal system. A variety of important issues concerning the evolution, measurement, and implications of coercion in public finance are addressed. These include: the emergence and persistence of coercion in the financing of structured anarchies; its role in the transition from natural states to the open access society; the measurement of coercion and its connection to the foundations of welfare analysis and to the sociology of preference formation; coercion in mechanism design problems with public goods; as constraints on optimal policy design and under alternative collective choice rules; and coercion in federal states as a solution to problems of highly divided societies. The implications for contemporary tax policy of the Wicksell-Lindahl solution, for the calculation of the incidence of the fiscal system, and for experiments with coercion in laboratory settings as a potentially productive force are also explored"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices. |
| ISBN: | 9781107280847 9781316004494 9781316008997 9781306857918 |
