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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850891
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Modelling the composition of government expenditure
Creedy, John - 2011
The composition of government expenditure varies considerably across countries. The aim of this book is to explore the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851401
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851479
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851526
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Fiscal policy and environmental welfare : modelling interjurisdictional competition
Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten - 1998 - Revised version of the author's thesis
In this innovative book the author examines the link between environmental, trade and industrial policies within an interregional setting. He models how regional governments, using tax rates on real capital and pollutant emissions, determine policies to favour their residents in terms of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473840
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473918
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Transformations in global governance : implications for multinationals and other stakeholders
Vachani, Sushil (contributor) - 2006
implications for multinational-government relations, multinationals" self-governance, relations with NGOs and issues of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850810
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Autocratic, democratic, and optimal government : fiscal choices and economic outcomes
Niskanen, William A. - 2003
1. On the choice of regime -- 2. Models of government -- 3. The parameters -- 4. Autocratic, democratic, and optimal … government -- 5. Variations on the democratic model -- 6. Fiscal rules for a democracy -- 7. A constitutional approach to taxes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850832
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Anarchy, state and public choice
Stringham, Edward (contributor) - 2005
The book reprints the main articles from the 1972 volume Explorations in the Theory of Anarchy, and contains a response … younger economists are notably less pessimistic about markets and more pessimistic about government than their predecessors …. Much of the new analysis suggests that private property rights and contracts can exist without government, and that even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851013
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State and local finances under pressure
Sjoquist, David L. (contributor) - 2003
State and Local Finances under Pressure explores the future of state and local government fiscal systems given the … : demographic and economic changes and state and local government finances -- 4. Politics, the courts, and the economy … : implications for the future of school financing -- 5. Popular processes and the transformation of state and local government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851271