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Author:   Richard A. Musgrave
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.948kg
ISBN:  

9781840641134

ISBN 10:   1840641134
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   26 January 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Preface Part I: Foundations 1. The Role of the State in Fiscal Theory 2. Crossing Traditions 3. Public Finance and Finanzwissenschaft Traditions Compared 4. Combining and Separating Fiscal Choices: Wicksell's Model at its Centennial 5. Social Science, Ethics, and the Role of the Public Sector 6. Tableau Fiscale 7. Merit Goods Part II: Equity in Taxation 8. Public Finance and Distributive Justice 9. The Nature of Horizontal Equity and the Principle of Broad-Based Taxation: A Friendly Critique 10. Social Contract, Taxation and the Standing of Deadweight Loss 11. Horizontal Equity, Once More 12. Horizontal Equity: A Further Note 13. Tax Equity with Multiple Jurisdictions (with Peggy B. Musgrave) 14. Pigou on Taxation Part III: Multiple Jurisdictions 15. Federalism, Grants and Fiscal Equalization (with Peter Mieszkowski) 16. Who Should Tax, Where and What? 17. Inter-nation Equity (with Peggy B. Musgrave) 18. Devolution, Grants and Fiscal Competition Part IV: Budget Growth 19. When is the Public Sector too Large? 20. Excess Bias and the Nature of Budget Growth 21. Fiscal Churning (with Peggy B. Musgrave) 22. Fiscal Functions of the Public Sector 23. Reconsidering the Fiscal Role of Government 24. The Longer View 25. Comments on James M. Buchanan 'The Fiscal Crisis in Welfare Democracies' Part V: Tax Reform 26. Clarifying Tax Reform 27. Tax Reform in Developing Countries 28. Micro and Macro Aspects of Fiscal Policy Index

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'Richard Musgrave is arguably the leading public finance scholar of his generation. This book is a testament to his outstanding contribution to his discipline. Its 28 chapters reproduce selected conference papers, journal articles, essays, and commentaries by Musgrave that have been published over his long and distinguished career... The smooth prose and compelling content of the chapters are imbued throughout with Musgrave's deep and passionate commitment to the institutions of the liberal welfare state.' -- Tim Edgar, Canadian Tax Journal

'Richard Musgrave is arguably the leading public finance scholar of his generation. This book is a testament to his outstanding contribution to his discipline. Its 28 chapters reproduce selected conference papers, journal articles, essays, and commentaries by Musgrave that have been published over his long and distinguished career. . . The smooth prose and compelling content of the chapters are imbued throughout with Musgrave's deep and passionate commitment to the institutions of the liberal welfare state.' -- Tim Edgar, Canadian Tax Journal

Author Information

The late Richard A. Musgrave, formerly H.H. Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University and formerly Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, US

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