The Economic Approach to Public Policy
| Author | : Ryan C. Amacher |
| Publisher | : Ithaca : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 564 |
| Release | : 1976 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Public Policy An Economic Perspective
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Political Economy for Public Policy
| Author | : Ethan Bueno de Mesquita |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2016-09-06 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0691168741 |
The ideal introductory textbook to the politics of the policymaking process This textbook uses modern political economy to introduce students of political science, government, economics, and public policy to the politics of the policymaking process. The book's distinct political economy approach has two virtues. By developing general principles for thinking about policymaking, it can be applied across a range of issue areas. It also unifies the policy curriculum, offering coherence to standard methods for teaching economics and statistics, and drawing connections between fields. The book begins by exploring the normative foundations of policymaking—political theory, social choice theory, and the Paretian and utilitarian underpinnings of policy analysis. It then introduces game theoretic models of social dilemmas—externalities, coordination problems, and commitment problems—that create opportunities for policy to improve social welfare. Finally, it shows how the political process creates technological and incentive constraints on government that shape policy outcomes. Throughout, concepts and models are illustrated and reinforced with discussions of empirical evidence and case studies. This textbook is essential for all students of public policy and for anyone interested in the most current methods influencing policymaking today. Comprehensive approach to politics and policy suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students Models unify policy curriculum through methodological coherence Exercises at the end of every chapter Self-contained appendices cover necessary game theory Extensive discussion of cases and applications
Economic Perspectives on Government
| Author | : Keith Dowding |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 135 |
| Release | : 2019-07-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3030197077 |
“Dowding and Taylor offer student and scholar alike a clear and compelling perspective on the foundations of political economy. Their narrative coherently frames the scholarship of the last half century, and persuasively applies it to the recurring problems facing groups, markets, and whole societies.”—Kenneth A. Shepsle, Harvard University, USA This book introduces and applies the economic way of thinking to public policy and public administration. It provides a non-technical introduction and assumes no prior economic or mathematical training but looks closely at the methodological and normative assumptions underlying economic analysis. It provides a deep understanding of the method than a simple technical presentation would allow. After introducing the basic assumptions of the economic method, the book considers the analysis of market failure, the role of government in a market economy, behavioural economics, bargaining in government, bureaucracy, interest groups, and levels of government. By providing a balanced introduction to and overview of economic approaches to government, the book will be useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students in public administration and public policy, as well as academics and practitioners in these fields interested in the application of the economic way of thinking.
Public Finance and Public Policy
| Author | : Arye L. Hillman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 861 |
| Release | : 2009-04-06 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1139475371 |
The second edition of Public Finance and Public Policy retains the first edition's themes of investigation of responsibilities and limitations of government. The present edition has been rewritten and restructured. Public choice and political economy concepts and political and bureaucratic principal-agent problems are introduced at the beginning for application to later topics. Fairness, envy, hyperbolic discounting, and other concepts of behavioral economics are integrated throughout. The consequences of asymmetric information and the tradeoff between efficiency and ex-post equality are recurring themes. Key themes investigated are markets and governments, institutions and governance, public goods, public finance for public goods, market corrections (externalities and paternalist public policies), voting, social justice, entitlements and equality of opportunity, choice of taxation, and the need for government. The purpose of the book is to provide an accessible introduction to the use of public finance and public policy to improve on market outcomes.
Economics in Christian Perspective
| Author | : Victor V. Claar |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2015-04-21 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0830899901 |
Victor Claar and Robin Klay introduce students to the basic principles of economics and then evaluate the principles and issues as seen from a Christian perspective. This textbook places the economic life in the context of Christian discipleship and stewardship. This text is for use in any course needing a survey of the principles of economics.
The Making of Economic Policy
| Author | : Avinash K. Dixit |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 1998-09-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780262540988 |
The Making of Economic Policy begins by observing that most countries' trade policies are so blatantly contrary to all the prescriptions of the economist that there is no way to understand this discrepancy except by delving into the politics. The same is true for many other dimensions of economic policy. Avinash Dixit looks for an improved understanding of the politics of economic policy-making from a transaction cost perspective. Such costs of planning, implementing, and monitoring an exchange have proved critical to explaining many phenomena in industrial organization. Dixit discusses the variety of similar transaction costs encountered in the political process of making economic policy and how these costs affect the operation of different institutions and policies. Dixit organizes a burgeoning body of research in political economy in this framework. He uses U.S. fiscal policy and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) as two examples that illustrate the framework, and show how policy often deviates from the economist's ideal of efficiency. The approach reveals, however, that some seemingly inefficient practices are quite creditable attempts to cope with transaction costs such as opportunism and asymmetric information. Copublished with the Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute
Public Finance and Public Policy
| Author | : Arye L. Hillman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 657 |
| Release | : 2019-01-10 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1107136318 |
Using a political-economy perspective this book is an introduction to the responsibilities and limitations of government in a market economy.
Health Policy Issues
| Author | : Paul J. Feldstein |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Medical care |
| ISBN | : 9781640550131 |
Economic Geography and Public Policy
| Author | : Richard Baldwin |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 2011-10-16 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1400841232 |
Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well. However, these efforts--collectively known as the "new economic geography"--have devoted little attention to the policy implications of the new theory. Economic Geography and Public Policy fills the gap by illustrating many new policy insights economic geography models can offer to the realm of theoretical policy analysis. Focusing primarily on trade policy, tax policy, and regional policy, Richard Baldwin and coauthors show how these models can be used to make sense of real-world situations. The book not only provides much fresh analysis but also synthesizes insights from the existing literature. The authors begin by presenting and analyzing the widest range of new economic geography models to date. From there they proceed to examine previously unaddressed welfare and policy issues including, in separate sections, trade policy (unilateral, reciprocal, and preferential), tax policy (agglomeration with taxes and public goods, tax competition and agglomeration), and regional policy (infrastructure policies and the political economy of regional subsidies). A well-organized, engaging narrative that progresses smoothly from fundamentals to more complex material, Economic Geography and Public Policy is essential reading for graduate students, researchers, and policymakers seeking new approaches to spatial policy issues.
Introduction to Public Policy
| Author | : Charles Wheelan |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
| Total Pages | : 582 |
| Release | : 2010-01-26 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780393926651 |
The first introductory public policy text with a strong economics perspective. A new textbook by Charles Wheelan, author of Naked Economics, Introduction to Public Policy uses economic principles to demonstrate that sound public policy occurs when unfettered private markets provide the greatest good for the greatest number. Only when it does not do this is government intervention needed.
