TY - BOOK AU - Cullis,John G. AU - Jones,Philip R. TI - Public finance and public choice : analytical perspectives SN - 9780199234783 AV - HJ141.C85 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford : PB - Oxford University Press KW - Finance, Public KW - Social choice N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Market performance : possibilities and prescriptions -- Externalities -- Public goods -- Collective decision-making : searching for the "public interest" -- Rent-seeking, public provision and the "return to the market" -- Evaluation of public expenditure : cost--benefit analysis -- Tax theory : the basic concepts -- Tax evasion and the black economy -- Income (re)distribution -- Central government -- Public choice aspects of macroeconomic policies -- Fiscal federalism -- International issues in public finance -- Public sector failure and public expenditure growth -- Optimal taxation -- Towards a "new" public finance economics : experiments, behaviour, neuro-imaging and "individual failure" UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1001/2009017030-d.html ER -