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A Handbook of Alternative Theories of Public Economics

, 2014
Contents: PART I: REVISITING THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS 1. The Neglected Importance of the Austrian Thought in Public Economics Pascal Salin 2. In Defense of the Euro: An Austrian Perspective Jesus Huerta de Soto 3. Marxian Public Economics.
F. Forte, R. Mudambi, P. Navarra
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Lectures on public economics

, 1988
This classic introduction to public finance remains the best advanced-level textbook on the subject ever written. First published in 1980, Lectures on Public Economics still tops reading lists at many leading universities despite the fact that the book ...
A. Atkinson, J. Stiglitz
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Voluntary- and Information-Based Approaches to Environmental Management: A Public Economics Perspective

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2013
Interest in decentralized approaches to environmental management has grown significantly in recent years. Along with the standard instruments of environmental policy—quantity, price, and technology regulations—is a growing number of voluntary—and ...
Matthew J. Kotchen
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Public Economics Gone Wild: Lessons from Venture Capital

, 2013
A recent article in the Journal of Public Economics has asserted, among other things, that government venture capital funds in Europe have crowded out private venture capital. I explain that the findings in that paper are based on empirical measures that
Douglas J. Cumming
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Applied Health Economics for Public Health Practice and Research

, 2019
Public health has been described as the organized activities of society to improve and protect the health of the population. Health economics applied to public health is the study of how we allocate our scarce societal resources to meet our public health
R. Edwards, E. McIntosh
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The Economics of Misreporting and the Role of Public Scrutiny

Journal of Accounting & Economics, 2018
This paper examines how the ex ante level of public scrutiny influences a manager's subsequent decision to misreport. The conventional wisdom is that high levels of public scrutiny facilitate monitoring, suggesting a negative relation between scrutiny ...
Delphine Samuels, Daniel J. Taylor, Robert E. Verrecchia   +2 more
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The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead

, 2000
This paper examines the progressive development of the new institutional economics over the past quarter century. It begins by distinguishing four levels of social analysis, with special emphasis on the institutional environment and the institutions of ...
O. Williamson
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Usage Patterns and the Economics of the Public Cloud

The Web Conference, 2017
We examine the economics of demand and supply in cloud computing. The public cloud offers three main benefits to firms: 1) utilization can be scaled up or down easily; 2) capital expenditure (on-premises servers) can be converted to operating expenses ...
Cinar Kilcioglu, Justin M. Rao, A. Kannan, R. P. McAfee   +3 more
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Public Economics after The Idea of Justice

, 2012
In this first lecture in honour of Amartya Sen, I examine the lessons that can be drawn from The Idea of Justice for public economics and the extent to which public economics has already moved in the direction advocated by Sen. More specifically, I focus
A. Atkinson
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The Economics of Recreation, Leisure and Tourism

, 2020
1. Introduction Part 1: Organisations and markets 2. Organisations 3. Markets Part 2: Further issues of demand and supply 4. Demand: Time Preference 5. Elasticity and Forecasting 6. Supply and Costs Part 3: Markets in Practice 7.
J. Tribe
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