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

Although coercion is a fundamental and unavoidable part of our social lives, economists have not offered an integrated analysis of its role in the public economy. The essays in this book focus on coercion arising from the operation of the fiscal system, a major part of the public sector. Collective...

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Other Authors: Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge (Editor), Winer, Stanley L., 1947- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Coercion, welfare, and the study of public finance / Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Stanley L. Winer
  • The constitution of coercion : Wicksell, violence, and the ordering of society / John Joseph Wallis
  • Proprietary public finance : on its emergence and evolution out of anarchy / Stergios Skaperdas
  • Discussion : a spatial model of state coercion / Léonard Dudley
  • Coercion, taxation, and voluntary association / Roger D. Congleton
  • Kaldor-Hicks-Scitovsky coercion, Coasian bargaining, and the state / Michael C. Munger
  • Discussion : a sociological perspective on coercion and social welfare / Edgar Kiser
  • Non-coercion, efficiency and incentive compatibility in public goods / John O. Ledyard
  • 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
  • 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
  • Fiscal coercion in federal systems, with special attention to highly divided societies / Giorgio Brosio
  • Discussion : on coercion in divided societies / Bernard Grofman
  • Cooperating to resist coercion : an experimental study / Lucy F. Ackert, Ann B. Gillette and Mark Rider
  • 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.