Edwin Seligman, initiator of global progressive public finance

Global Warming : a Public Finance Perspective

Public Finance

Public Finance Harvey Rosen Chapter One: Introduction 1. This book is about the taxing and spending activity of government, a subject usually called public finance. This term is something of a misnomer, because the fundamental issues are not financial (that is, relating to money). Rather, the key problems relate to the use real resources. P4 2. Our focus is on the microeconomic functions of gov...

نقد و تحلیل کتاب « Public Finance and Public Policy»

بحث درباره جایگاه مطلوب بخش عمومی (دولت) در اقتصاد از دیرباز مورد توجه مکاتب گوناگون فکری قرار داشته و به علت اهمیت وافر وارد برنامه‌های رسمی دانشگاه‌ها در سراسر جهان شده است. هدف این مقاله تحلیل و نقد کتاب درسی مالیه عمومی و سیاست عمومی تألیف جاناتان گروبر است که از جدیدترین کتاب‌های درسی این حوزه به شمار می‌رود و هم اکنون در تعداد قابل توجهی از دانشگاه‌های مطرح جهان به عنوان کتاب درسی اصلی اق...

Public Health Learning – Purposeful, Progressive, Global by Design

Over the past decade, we have witnessed expansive growth in numbers and diversity of undergraduate public health programs. Majors, minors, and certificates are proliferating across all institutional types. While no complete census of programs exists, a number of studies have noted the growth (1, 2) [see also the special issue of Am J Prev Med (2008) 35(3), on undergraduate public health educati...

Separability and public finance

In a second best environment, the optimal policy choice sometimes follows first best rules, as described in a number of scattered works. This paper presents a formal general argument which allows to unify much of the literature. It lays down the information structure and separability assumptions under which the results hold in a variety of setups, with extensions to preference heterogeneity and...