Public Finance in Theory and Practice 2nd Edition PDF Download Ebook. Holley Ulbrich will provide students with an understanding of the economic role of government. The students will be provided with the tools to critically analyze problems/issues of the public sector using basic economic theory.
The author takes a strong emphasis on policy analysis as a way to integrate theory. Integrated throughout the text is an international comparative perspective, allowing students to gain an understanding on various ways to organize government, create policies, collect revenue, and allocate funds. Unlike most public finance text in the market today, Ulbrich's voice represents a public choice approach.
The events of the last decade have challenged the contemporary neo-classical synthesis in all branches of economics, but particularly public finance. The book is the infusion of behavioral economics throughout the text, with an end of chapter question inviting the student to apply a behavioral lens to some question or issue. There continues to be an emphasis on the importance of the institutional context, drawing on examples from many countries and emphasizing the role of lower level governments in a federal system.
The first five chapters establish this context by reviewing the role of government in a market system, the description of government structure from an economic perspective, the basic data about revenue and expenditures, the elements of public choice, and the distributional role of government. The book has been substantially reorganized to put more emphasis on public expenditure. Expanded treatment of public goods includes common property resources and congestible or club goods.
Expanded discussion of budgeting and cost-benefit analysis provides some practical application of the theory. Updated discussions of social security, public education and health care address these three major contemporary public finance issues. The traditional emphasis on revenue (taxes, fees and grants) has been retained but follows rather than precedes the discussion of expenditures.
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