State and Local Public Finance

by Ronald C. Fisher

Overview

State and Local Public Finance provides a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of state and local government public finance practices and issues, using the basic tools of economics. This fifth edition maintains its focus on key local services such as education, health care, and transportation and brings in new coverage of land use and housing, applications from behavioral economics, and more international comparisons.

This textbook provides an examination and analysis of public finance practices and problems in a federal fiscal system, focusing on the fiscal behavior and policies of state and local governments. Modern economic theory is applied to examine the way key institutions are used to produce and finance services and to provide evaluation of alternative policies.

This stalwart text will continue to be invaluable reading for those who study public finance, local government finance, urban economics, public policy, and public administration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000713558
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/21/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	596
Sales rank:	399,352
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Ronald C. Fisher is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University, where he specializes in the finance of state and local governments and intergovernmental fiscal relations.

Table of Contents

PART I Introduction

1 Why study state and local government finance?

2 Microeconomic analysis: market effiiency and market failure

PART II Public choice and fiscal federalism

3 Demand for state and local government goods and services

4 Public choice without mobility: voting

5 Public choice through mobility

6 Organization of subnational government

PART III Provision of state and local goods and services

7 Supply of state and local goods and services

8 Pricing of government goods: user charges

9 Intergovernmental grants

10 Capital investment, borrowing, and debt

PART IV Revenue for state and local governments

11 Principles of tax analysis

12 The property tax

13 Sales and excise taxes

14 Individual income taxes

15 Business taxes

16 Revenue from government monopoly and regulation

PART V Applications and policy analysis

17 Education

18 Transportation

19 Health and welfare

20 Economic development

Editorial Reviews

"...gets better with each edition... should be used in all S&L classes and on every public finance professor's desk" - Gary C. Cornia, Former Dean of the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University

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