What should be the role of government in society? How should it design its programmes? How should tax systems be designed to promote both efficiency and fairness? Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and new co-author Jay Rosengard bring an unparalleled level of expertise to address these key issues of public-sector economics. No other text is as modern, as accessible, or incorporates as much first-hand policy-advising experience by its authors as Stiglitz/Rosengard.
Les mer
The long awaited revision of a classic text by an expert author team.
THOROUGHLY REVISED AND UPDATED TO REFLECT THE PUBLIC FINANCE LANDSCAPE OF TODAY Economics of the Public Sector, fourth edition, focuses on the heavily changed, post-global recession world. This new, modern approach includes a discussion on global public goods in Chapter 5, which addresses the difficulty of coping with public health and security threats when they transcend government coping mechanisms, while Chapter 8 examines corporatisation and the transition from government enterprise to private enterprise. AN EASILY ACCESSIBLE BOOK THAT TEACHES CONCEPTUAL MASTERY INSTEAD OF TECHNICAL DETAIL Stiglitz and Rosengard write with the student in mind. Not only do they use accessible language, but also the graphs throughout the text are simple and easy to understand. Case studies and references to real-world programmes and policies, such as Welfare Programmes and the Redistribution of Income in Chapter 15, are found in the body of the text, ensuring that students are introduced to policy applications while they read. THE TEXT’S INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE REFLECTS A GLOBAL ECONOMY The authors introduce students to a global perspective by sharing their first-hand experiences working with foreign governments.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780393937091
Publisert
2015-04-17
Utgave
4. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Ww Norton & Co
Vekt
1261 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
193 mm
Dybde
36 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
960

Om bidragsyterne

Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning economist and the best-selling author of People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent; Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Age of Trump; The Price of Inequality; and Freefall. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, chief economist of the World Bank, named by Time as one of the 100 most influential individuals in the world, and now teaches at Columbia University and is chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute. Jay Rosengard is Lecturer in Public Policy at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has 35 years of international experience designing, implementing, and evaluating development policies in public finance and fiscal strategy, tax and budget reform, municipal finance and management, intergovernmental fiscal relations, banking and financial institutions development, microfinance, SME finance, and public administration. Mr. Rosengard is director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government's Financial Sector Program, which focuses on the development of bank and nonbank financial institutions and alternative financing instruments that include microfinance (small-scale lending and local savings mobilization), mainstream commercial banking (general and special-purpose banks), and wholesale financial intermediation (municipal development funds, venture capital funds, pooled financing, secondary mortgage facilities, and securitization).