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Contingent valuation and endangered species : methodological issues and applications
Jakobsson, Kristin M.; Dragun, Andrew K. - 1996
Contingent Valuation and Endangered Species provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the contingent valuation method as applied to the profound social problem of biodiversity conservation. The contingent valuation method allows the explicit identification and valuation of the non-use...
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Public goods, redistribution and rent seeking
Tullock, Gordon - 2005
1. Some difficulties in the existing theory of externalities -- 2. Coase and all that -- 3. More on why government …
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Recent developments in public finance
Tanzi, Vito - 2011
Estevadeordal, Brian Frantz and Tam Robert Nguyen (eds), Regional Public Goods: From Theory to Practice, Chapter 1, Washington, DC …, Real Tax Revenue, and the Case for Inflationary Finance: Theory with an Application to Argentina', International Monetary … The Theory of Incentives: The Principal- Agent Model, Chapter 1, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 7 …
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Game theory and public policy
McCain, Roger A. - 2009
Game theory is useful in understanding collective human activity as the outcome of interactive decisions. In recent … analytical tools of game theory with the pragmatic purpose of identifying problems and exploring potential solutions in public …
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Computable economics
Velupillai, K. Vela - 2011
this timely volume include the foundations of computable economics, classics of computable choice theory, computable … macroeconomics and computable and social choice theory. The book is enhanced with a comprehensive introduction by the editors and …-152. -- Clower, Robert W. and Peter W. Howitt (1978), The Transaction Theory of the Demand for Money: A Reconsideration, Journal of …
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Political economy and public finance : the role of political economy in the theory and practice of public economics
Shibata, Hirofumi (contributor);  … - International Institute of Public Finance <Linz, … - 2002
policy process? And what have we learned about the theory and practice of public finance from three decades of empirical … we learned about the theory and practice of public finance from three decades of empirical research on public choice …
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Advancing public goods
Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - Cournot Centre for Economic Studies <Paris, France)> / … - 2006
The studies cover topics in the conceptualization, classification and stratification of public goods. Also examined are public institutional design, global economic institutions and partnership typologies. Individual papers address the financing, regulatory, organizational and legal aspects...
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Modelling the composition of government expenditure
Creedy, John - 2011
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Economic rights and environmental wrongs : property rights for the common good
Devlin, Rose Anne - 1998
The crisis of environmental degradation has createcharemd an immense volume of literature which focuses on controlling environmental problems. Economic Rights and Environmental Wrongs goes one step further to extend and complement the current debates
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Competition in the provision of local public goods : single function jurisdictions and individual choice
Reifschneider, Alexandra Petermann - 2006
The central purpose of this book is to analyse the optimal allocation of local public goods or services (for example garbage collection, police, fire brigades and medical services) in large urban agglomerations and the allocation consequences of increasing competition in the provision of them....
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