The Economics of Public Services

Proceedings of a Conference held by the International Economic Association at Turin, Italy

  • Martin S. Feldstein
  • Robert P. Inman
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Part of the International Economic Association Conference Volumes book series (IEA)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Economics of Housing Programmes

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Housing Allowances, Income Maintenance and Income Taxation
      A. B. Atkinson
      Pages 3-16
    3. Public Expenditure for Housing: The Italian Case
      Francesco Forte
      Pages 17-25

  3. Distributional Issues in Education

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 27-27
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    2. Efficiency and Equity in Public Education Expenditures
      Michael Bruno
      Pages 29-44
    3. On Measuring the Redistribution of Lifetime Income
      Richard Layard
      Pages 45-72

  4. The Criminal Justice System

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 73-73
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    2. Jury Size and Composition: An Economic Approach
      Alvin K. Klevorick
      Pages 75-115
    3. Theory and Estimation in Models of Crime and its Social Control and their Relations to Concepts of Social Output
      R. A. Carr-Hill, N. H. Stern
      Pages 116-147

  5. Economic Effects of Social Security

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 149-149
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    2. Demographic Effects on the Equity of Social Security Benefits
      Henry J. Aaron
      Pages 151-173
    3. Social Security and Private Savings: International Evidence in an Extended Life-Cycle Model
      Martin S. Feldstein
      Pages 174-205
    4. A Social Security System and Short-Term Economic Policy
      Patrick P. Jeanjean
      Pages 206-230
    5. Redistribution through Social Security: A Lesson from Italy
      Franco Reviglio
      Pages 231-250

  6. Decentralised Provision of Public Services

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 251-251
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    2. The Supply of Communal Goods and Revenue Sharing
      Eytan Sheshinski
      Pages 253-273
    3. The Theory of Local Public Goods
      Joseph E. Stiglitz
      Pages 274-333
    4. The City as a Firm
      William Vickrey
      Pages 334-343
    5. The Assignment Problem in Federal Structures
      Albert Breton, Anthony Scott
      Pages 344-357

About this book

Keywords

economics finance public finance service

Editors and affiliations

  • Martin S. Feldstein
    • 1
  • Robert P. Inman
    • 2
  1. 1.Harvard UniversityUSA
  2. 2.University of PennsylvaniaUSA

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02917-4
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1977
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-02919-8
  • Online ISBN 978-1-349-02917-4
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