Public Finance and Public Policy

In the past twenty years, the field of public finance has undergone a dramatic evolution, with a growing interest in the study of transfer programs and social insurance. The field has also moved from predominantly theoretic approaches to putting more emphasis on high-quality empirical work, both in the traditional areas of tax and direct spending and in the newer areas of transfer programs and social insurance. Jonathan Gruber's Public Finance and Public Policy is the first text to acknowledge those changes. Written specifically with those developments in mind, it brings the realities of contemporary public finance to the classroom in ways no other text can match.

Public Finance and Public Policy

Jonathan Gruber

Worth Publishers

2017

Abstract

The new edition details ongoing policy debates, with a particular focus on the biggest tax reform in 30 years. New topics include universal basic income, pot legalization, and congestion pricing. And, of course, there's an extensive discussion of the healthcare debate.

Learn how public policy is created, implemented, and researched by bringing real-life examples between traditional topics of public finance and Public Finance and Public Policy.

We are currently engaged in the most fundamental debate about the role of government in decades, and who better than Jonathan Gruber to guide students through the details in a new edition of our best-selling text. Mr., Public Finance and Public Policy

At the heart of this new edition is the author's belief that at no other time has it been important to know the truth, distinguish truth from falsehood, and think clearly about issues, policies, and politics. important. The sixth edition delivers on all quantities.

This market-leading textbook reflects how public policy is created, implemented, and researched, integrating theory, application, and evidence. Real-world empirical work and coverage of social insurance and transfer programs are intertwined with traditional themes of public finance.

The book includes:

Part I: Introduction and Background
Part II: Externalities and Public Goods
Part III: Social Insurance and redistribution
Part IV: Taxation in Theory and Practice

This timely new edition provides students with the fundamental tools they need to understand the driving issues of public policy today, including health care, education, global climate change, benefits, etc.