Coercion and Social Welfare in Public Finance

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez is Regents Professor of Economics and director of the international studies program in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He has published more than twenty books and numerous articles in academic journals, such as Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Public Economics, the Southern Economic Journal, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. He has directed multiple fiscal reform projects, having worked in more than seventy countries, including China, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, and South Africa. He is the current coeditor of Hacienda Pública Española/Review of Public Economics. Professor Martinez-Vazquez holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Washington University in St. Louis. Stanley L. Winer is the Canada Research Chair Professor in Public Policy in the school of public policy and administration and the department of economics at Carleton University in Ottawa. He is the author, with Walter Hettich, of Democratic Choice and Taxation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1999). His recent book with Kathleen Day, Interregional Migration and Public Policy in Canada (2013), was awarded the Purvis Prize from the Canadian Economics Association. He has also published widely in leading academic journals on the political economy of fiscal systems and other topics. Professor Winer is the chair of the editorial board of the Carleton Library Series. He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from The Johns Hopkins University.

'Taking seriously the role of coercion in public finance represents a significant advance in economic thinking about taxation, welfare, and collective decision making. With this finely crafted edited volume jam-packed with distinguished contributors, Martinez-Vazquez and Winer set a new agenda for the debate on the relationship between compulsion and effective government.' Margaret Levi, Director, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

• 1. Coercion, welfare, and the study of public finance Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Stanley L. Winer; Part I. Violence, Structured Anarchy, and the State: 2. The constitution of coercion: Wicksell, violence, and the ordering of society John J. Wallis; 3. Proprietary public finance: on its emergence and evolution out of anarchy Stergios Skaperdas; Part II. Voluntary and Coercive Transactions in Welfare Analysis: 4. Coercion, taxation, and voluntary association Roger D. Congleton; 5. Kaldor-Hicks coercion, Coasian bargaining, and the state Michael C. Munger; Part III. Coercion in Public Sector Economics: Theory and Application: 6. Non-coercion, efficiency and incentive compatibility in public goods John O. Ledyard; 7. Social welfare and coercion in public finance Stanley L. Winer, George Tridimas and Walter Hettich; 8. Lindahl fiscal incidence and the measurement of coercion Saloua Sehili and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez; 9. Fiscal coercion in federal systems, with special attention to highly divided societies Giorgio Brosio; Part IV. Coercion in the Laboratory: 10. Cooperating to resist coercion: an experimental study Lucy F. Ackert, Ann B. Gillette and Mark Rider; 11. Partial coercion, conditional cooperation, and self-commitment in voluntary contributions to public goods Elena Cettolin and Arno Riedl.