The Economics of Public
Spending investigates the extent of government involvement in the economy, its rationale,
and traces its historical record. The book unites articles previously published in Fiscal
Studies, each one addressing a different area of expenditure and written by an economist
with an international reputation in that field. Both the data and the relevant theory are
analysed. A new introduction investigates the overall role of the public sector and
discusses the general theory of public expenditure.
Readership: Undergraduates, practitioners, and anyone with an interest in the public
sector.
Table of Contents
1 David Miles, Gareth Myles,
and Ian Preston: Introduction
2 James Banks and Carl
Emmerson: Public and Private Pension Spending: Principles, Practice and the Need for
Reform
3 Carol Propper: Expenditure
on Healthcare in the UK: A Review of the Issues
4 Jayasri Dutta, James
Sefton, and Martin Weale: Education and Public Policy
5 Bruce D. Meyer:
Unemployment and Workers' Compensation Programmes: Rationale, Design, Labour Supply, and
Income Support
6 Ann Dryden Witte and
Robert Witt: What We Spend and What We Get: Public and Private Provision of Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice
7 Todd Sandler and James C.
Murdoch: On Sharing NATO Defence Burdens in the 1990s and Beyond
8 David Pearce and Charles
Palmer: Public and Private Spending for Environmental Protection: A Cross-Country Policy
Analysis
9 Clifford Winston:
Government Failure in Urban Transportation
10 Alan Peacock: Public
Financing of the Arts in England
11 Paul Stoneman: Government
Spending on Research and Development in the U
416 pages