Public Finance and Public Policy

JONATHON GRUBER Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, has extensive first-hand research experience in a broad range of topics in health care economics, taxation and redistribution programs. He has taught Contemporary Public Finance at MIT for twelve years and has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department, where he worked on tobacco regulation, child care, higher education, public health insurance, global warming, Social Security reform, and welfare and income distribution policy.

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PART I: BACKGROUND Why Study Public Finance? Theoretical Tools of Public Finance Empirical Tools of Public Finance Tools of Budget Analysis PART II: EXTERNALITITES AND PUBLIC GOODS Externalities: Problems and Solutions Externalities in Action: Environmental and Health Externalities Public Goods: Problems and Solutions Cost/Benefit Analysis Implementing Public Goods: Political Economy and Public Choice State and Local Government Expenditures Public Goods in Action: Education PART III: SOCIAL INSURANCE AND REDISTRIBUTION Social Insurance Social Security Unemployment Insurance, Workers' Compensation and Disability Insurance Health Insurance I: Health Economics and Private Health Insurance Health Insurance II: Medicare and Medicaid Income Distribution and Welfare PART IV: TAXATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE Taxation in the U.S. and Around the World The Equity Implications of Taxation - Tax Incidence Tax Inefficiencies and Their Implications for Optimal Taxation Taxes on Labour Supply Taxation of Savings Taxes on Risk Taking and Wealth Issues of Corporate Taxation Tax Reform

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