Public Finance

by Ted Gayer and Harvey S. Rosen

Book Overview

Public Finance benefits from the combined efforts of Harvey Rosen's market-leading book and co-author Ted Gayer's research and government agency experience. This combination of experience is able to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025617329X
• ISBN13: 9780256173291
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Irwin Professional Publishing
• Length: 573 Pages
• Weight: 2.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Great

The book was just as described. It was in good condition. It was packaged well and it reached me on time. There is nothing more I could have asked for.

Good book ^__^

I got this book and it was labeled as like new but it looked brand new to me. The content is very understandable.

Best book on the subject I`ve read.

Although Stiglitz makes it extremely readable and more elegant in his Economics of the Public Sector, I found it more effective to learn the subject due to the deeper treatment of the models and theories.

Public Finance

Perhaps slightly lacking on the theoretical side (but I guess this was Prof Rosen's objective), this book offers a broad yet detailed overview of public economics. Many parts are in narrative style making for a pleasantly clear read.Certainly a good and clear text for an exposition on the topic, especially if complemented/expanded on by a good lecturer.

Less brilliant, more honest

This book is not as challenging as Stiglitz, and the author does not have Stiglitz's dazzling facility with economic theory. But Rosen is properly less trusting of the political process, gives greater scope to political and ethical philosophy, is open to a wider range of ideas and has more references than Stiglitz, is less prone to rush to judgement, and is less beholden to the Clintonista viewpoint. This is the better book upon which to ground a sound understanding of public economics. Compare Rosen with Stiglitz on the Coase Theorem, the Flat Tax, the economic role of the stock market, and Social Security reform. Too bad Rosen's fairness cannot be combined with Stiglitz's brilliance.