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Coercion and social welfare in public finance : economic and political perspectives /

"Coercion is a fundamental and unavoidable part of our social lives. Economists, however, have not yet offered a fully integrated analysis of its role in either the private or the public economy. The essays in this book are different. Since collective choices on fiscal matters emerge from and h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge (Editor ), Winer, Stanley L., 1947- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Coercion, welfare, and the study of public finance / Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Stanley L. Winer. Part I. Violence, structured anarchy, and the state. 2. The constitution of coercion: Wicksell, violence, and the ordering of society / John J. Wallis ; 3. Proprietary public finance: on its emergence and evolution out of anarchy / Stergios Skaperdas ; Discussion: a spatial model of state coercion / Leonard Dudley
  • Part II. Voluntary and coercive transactions in welfare analysis. 4. Coercion, taxation, and voluntary association / Roger D. Congleton ; 5. Kaldor-Hicks coercion, Coasian bargaining, and the state / Michael C. Munger ; Discussion: a sociological perspective on coercion and social welfare / Edgar Kiser
  • Part III. Coercion in public sector economics: theory and application. 6. Non-coercion, efficiency and incentive compatibility in public goods / John O. Ledyard ; 7. Social welfare and coercion in public finance / Stanley L. Winer, George Tridimas and Walter Hettich ; Discussion: the role of coercion in public economic theory / Robin Boadway ; 8. Lindahl fiscal incidence and the measurement of coercion / Saloua Sehili and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez ; Discussion: state-local incidence and the Tiebout model / George R. Zodrow ; 9. Fiscal coercion in federal systems, with special attention to highly divided societies / Giorgio Brosio ; Discussion: on coercion in divided societies / Bernard Grofman
  • Part IV. Coercion in the laboratory. 10. Cooperating to resist coercion: an experimental study / Lucy F. Ackert, Ann B. Gillette and Mark Rider ; 11. Partial coercion, conditional cooperation, and self-commitment in voluntary contributions to public goods / Elena Cettolin and Arno Riedl ; Discussion: coercion in the lab! / Michael McKee.