The microeconomics of public policy analysis /
This title shows how microeconomics should be used in the analysis of public policy problems. It is a new way to learn microeconomics, motivated by its application to important, real-world issues.
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2002.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to microeconomic policy analysis
- An introduction to modeling : demand, supply, and benefit-cost reasoning
- Utility maximization, efficiency, and equity
- The specification of individual choice models for the analysis of welfare programs
- The analysis of equity standards : an intergovernmental grant application
- The compensation principle of benefit-cost reasoning : benefit measures and market demands
- Uncertainty and public policy
- Allocation over time and indexation
- The cost side of policy analysis : technical limits, productive possibilities, and cost concepts
- Private profit-making organizations : objectives, capabilities, and policy implications
- Public and nonprofit organizations : objectives, capabilities, and policy implications
- Efficiency, distribution, and general competitive analysis : consequences of taxation
- The control of prices to achieve equity in specific markets
- Distributional control with rations and vouchers
- Allocative difficulties in markets and governments
- The problem of public goods
- Externalities and policies to internalize them
- Industry regulation
- Policy problems of allocating resources over time
- Imperfect information and institutional choices.
