Download or read book Two Essays on the Economic Role of Government written by Steven G. Medema and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Economic Role of Government written by Warren J. Samuels and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a collection of articles applying fundamental concepts of power, property, regulation and the compensation principle to contemporary topics: the wealth maximization hypothesis, the Coase theorem, public utility regulation, and other topics in law and economics.

Download or read book Essays on the Economic Role of Government written by Warren J. Samuels and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Essays on the Economic Role of Government written by Warren J. Samuels and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in the Economic Role of Government Fundamentals written by Warren J. Samuels and published by New York University Press. This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential addition to any economics library, these five volumes present the contributions and writings of an influential and prolific scholar.

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Download or read book Essays on the Economic Role of Government written by Warren J. Samuels and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles examines the fundamental non-ideological conceptions and relationships consutituting the economic role of government, especially in market economies. The fundamental concepts include the nature of economic policy and the problem of order in economic affairs.

Download or read book Government and the American Economy written by Price V. Fishback and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American economy has provided a level of well-being that has consistently ranked at or near the top of the international ladder. A key source of this success has been widespread participation in political and economic processes. In The Government and the American Economy, leading economic historians chronicle the significance of America’s open-access society and the roles played by government in its unrivaled success story. America’s democratic experiment, the authors show, allowed individuals and interest groups to shape the structure and policies of government, which, in turn, have fostered economic success and innovation by emphasizing private property rights, the rule of law, and protections of individual freedom. In response to new demands for infrastructure, America’s federal structure hastened development by promoting the primacy of states, cities, and national governments. More recently, the economic reach of American government expanded dramatically as the populace accepted stronger limits on its economic freedoms in exchange for the increased security provided by regulation, an expanded welfare state, and a stronger national defense.

Download or read book Fundamentals of the Economic Role of Government written by Warren J. Samuels and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1989-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study brings an original slant to the complex and much-debated question of the proper role of government in the economic sphere. Representing a broad range of disciplinary and ideological approaches, the authors identify and explore the most fundamental propositions concerning the economic role of government, as well as the generalizations, major themes, and conclusions that can be drawn from them. The essays focus on the deep levels of political and economic organization and on the values and underlying assumptions that are the bases of the institution of government. Written by a distinguished group of specialists, the work approaches the issue multidimensionally--from the standpoint of social science, history, law, and philosophy. Not mere ideological exercises, the essays focus on the deep levels of political and economic organization and on the values and underlying assumptions that are the bases of the institution of government. Connections between the government's economic role and ideology, free enterprise, power politics, and group interests are considered together with the constitutional implications of governmental economic powers. Other issues addressed include the changing economic role of government, contradictions and ambiguities in the government's economic functions, rules governing economic activity, and the role of economists in government. Providing a diversity of viewpoints and a wealth of fresh insights, this book can be used in graduate and undergraduate courses in economics, political science, philosophy, and law, and will appeal to the informed general worker.

Download or read book Economics Governance and Law written by Warren J. Samuels and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This coherent collection of papers examines some of the fundamental issues in political economy in a non-judgemental and non-ideological way. The political economy is a process of decision making and these papers attempt to identify the deepest levels of conduct of collective choice. These include official and private government, the rule of law, the nature of poverty, rules and markets, deliberative and non-deliberative choice, and the operation of selective perception and of intellectual fraud in politics.

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Download or read book Two Essays on Government Behavior written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main theme of this dissertation is government's strategic behaviors. We show that different budget structures give governments incentives to behave differently, and that the Leviathan model and the Bureaucratic model are better in modeling government behaviors than the median voter model. We first discuss theoretically the design of an optimal tax system, promoting the Leviathan government to maximize social welfare in order to maximize its own revenue. Then we examine empirically how government behaviors vary with different budget structures. In essay I, we apply the Buchanan-Brennan (B-B) rule to examine the effects of a tax system on the efficiency of agricultural production in the context of Chinese local governments, which receive insufficient control from the central and are free from the pressure from local residents due to asymmetric information and lack of horizontal accountability. We extend the B-B rule to include the incentive issues and the risk sharing, and also their trade-off. Farmers and the agricultural sector assume significant roles in the national economy of China, while the under-provision of public infrastructures and the risks involved negatively affect agricultural production and therefore impede economic growth. Within the principal-agent framework, we illustrate how the problem is inherent in the agriculture tax system in China and propose our solution of special earmarking. In essay II, we test empirically for the government's strategic behaviors. We argue that the environmental performance is affected by government policy. Therefore it relates inherently to the budget structure and government incentives. With an illustrating model between structure of revenue and expenditure and pollution level, we propose three hypotheses, which state that the lower the ratio of business related tax in total revenue, the higher the ratio of property tax in total revenue, the higher the share of health expenditure in total expenditure, the government will have higher incentive to control pollution and thus the pollution level is lower. Our empirical evidence provides support to our hypotheses, which show that structures of revenue and expenditure do affect the government's incentives to control pollution. Therefore, changes in the budget structure might be helpful to achieve better environmental performance.

Download or read book Essays in Public Economics written by Philippe Wingender and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores the impact of government interventions on economic outcomes. In the first chapter, my colleague Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato and I propose a new identification strategy to measure the causal impact of government spending on the economy. Our methodology isolates exogenous cross-sectional variation in government spending using a novel instrument. We use the fact that a large number of federal spending programs depend on local population levels. Every ten years, the Census provides a count of local populations. A different method is used to estimate non-Census year populations and this discontinuous change in methodology leads to variation in the allocation of billions of dollars in federal spending. We use this variation to analyze the effect of exogenous changes in federal spending across counties on local economic outcomes. Our IV estimates imply that government spending has a local income multiplier of 1.88 and an estimated cost per job of $30,000 per year. These estimates are robust to the inclusion of potential confounders, such as local demand shocks. We also show that the local effects of government spending are not larger than aggregate effects at the MSA and state levels. Finally, we characterize the cross-sectional heterogeneity of the impacts of government spending. These results confirm that government spending has a higher impact in low growth areas and leads to reduction of inequality in economic outcomes. The second chapter uses timing of childbirth to measure the income effect of taxes on parents' labor supply. The IRS Residency Test states that families can claim a dependent for the entire fiscal year if the child was born at any time during the year. This rule provides an exogenous source of variation in tax liabilities for births that occur late in the year versus those that occur early the following year. By measuring the difference in earnings in the subsequent year for parents of December and January births, I can identify the impact of a one-time non-labor income shock on parents' labor supply since both groups face on average the same future stream of tax schedules after birth. Using data from two large scale household surveys in the United States, I find that a temporary increase in after-tax income leads to a significant decrease in mothers' earnings with an estimated income effect of -0.9. This result demonstrates that the income effect of taxes on labor supply can potentially be very large. It also highlights the crucial role of liquidity constraints in parents' labor supply decisions around the time of birth. The third chapter also uses timing of childbirth to measure the income effect of taxes on mothers' labor supply. The analysis is done using Canadian data. Until 1992, various provisions in the Canadian tax code gave important tax reductions to low and middle-income parents of eligible children. Families could claim a child as a dependent for the entire fiscal year if the child was born at any time during the year. In 1992, the last year the Canadian tax code featured these fiscal benefits, a two parent family claiming a dependent could save nearly a thousand dollars in taxes due to the Child Tax Credit, the dependent amount and the GST credit. Using this variation in tax liabilities, it is possible to identify the impact of a one-time non-labor income shock on mothers' labor supply. This important parameter has not been systematically measured in the literature on the effect of taxes on labor supply. Using natural experiments provided by tax reforms in various countries, the literature has mostly focused on changes in earnings due to the price effect of marginal tax rate changes. However, if the income effect of a tax change is large, observed elasticities of income with respect to net-of-tax rates understate the distortions associated with these changes.

Download or read book Essays in the Economic Role of Government Applications written by Warren J. Samuels and published by New York University Press. This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential addition to any economics library, these five volumes present the contributions and writings of an influential and prolific scholar.

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