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The economics of evaluation in public programs

Link, Albert N. - 2011

competing visions of benefit-cost analysis', Land Economics, 85, 3-23. -- Bewley, T.F. (1981), 'A critique of Tiebout's theory …), 'Profit maximizing communities and the theory of local public expenditures', Journal of Urban Economics, 5, 263 …', Journal of Urban Economics, 7, 102-18. -- Tiebout, C. (1956), 'A pure theory of local public expenditures,' Journal of …

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Advancing public goods

Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - Cournot Centre for Economic Studies <Paris, France)> / … - 2006

The studies cover topics in the conceptualization, classification and stratification of public goods. Also examined are public institutional design, global economic institutions and partnership typologies. Individual papers address the financing, regulatory, organizational and legal aspects...

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Modelling the composition of government expenditure

Creedy, John - 2011

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Economic rights and environmental wrongs : property rights for the common good

Devlin, Rose Anne - 1998

The crisis of environmental degradation has createcharemd an immense volume of literature which focuses on controlling environmental problems. Economic Rights and Environmental Wrongs goes one step further to extend and complement the current debates

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Competition in the provision of local public goods : single function jurisdictions and individual choice

Petermann Reifschneider, Alexandra - 2006

The central purpose of this book is to analyse the optimal allocation of local public goods or services (for example garbage collection, police, fire brigades and medical services) in large urban agglomerations and the allocation consequences of increasing competition in the provision of them....

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Global public goods : an Edward Elgar Research Review

Kaul, Inge (contributor) - 2016

and international law. The theory of inflation seeks to explain why inflation occurs and why its rate varies, to explain …

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Fiscal policy and environmental welfare : modelling interjurisdictional competition

Upmann, Thorsten - 1998 - Revised version of the author's thesis

In this innovative book the author examines the link between environmental, trade and industrial policies within an interregional setting. He models how regional governments, using tax rates on real capital and pollutant emissions, determine policies to favour their residents in terms of the...

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Contingent valuation and endangered species : methodological issues and applications

Jakobsson, Kristin M.; Dragun, Andrew Kazimierz - 1996

Contingent Valuation and Endangered Species provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the contingent valuation method as applied to the profound social problem of biodiversity conservation. The contingent valuation method allows the explicit identification and valuation of the non-use...

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Public goods and private wants : a psychological approach to government spending

Kemp, Simon - 2002

How valuable to us are the activities of government? Public Goods and Private Wants explores psychological approaches to public economics in order to answer this question. The contributions of economists and political scientists to the study of government spending are discussed, and subjective...

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Regulation, deregulation, reregulation : institutional perspectives

Ménard, Claude (contributor); Ghertman, Michel (contributor) - 2009

central message of new institutional economics: that theory should be continuously confronted by facts, and reformed or …

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