Economics of the Public Sector

By Joseph E. Stiglitz

Book Overview

The long awaited revision of a classic text by an expert author team.What should be the role of government in society? How should it design its programs? How should tax systems be designed to promote both efficiency and fairness? Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and new co-author Jay Rosengard use their first-hand policy-advising experience to address these key issues of public-sector economics in this modern and accessible Fourth Edition.

• Format: Loose Leaf
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393906396
• ISBN13: 9780393906394
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 960 Pages
• Weight: 3.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 9.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

non-mathematical

This book by Stiglitz offers a not-so technical introduction into Public Economics, and I would say it is on undergraduate level. There is very little mathematics involved, for an economics book, as his aim is to build up an intuitive recognition of the concepts. For international learners there is an obvious drawback in that the case-studies are all based on the US economy. But with a topic like this, I think writing a general book would be quite difficult, I haven't really come across one that is. For me this book was effective, I used this book more than my designated textbook.

Excessively intuitive. But any way, he`s a Nobel Price

Although I deeply respect J. Stiglitz, I prefer H. Rosen`s Public Finance. I found it more effective to learn this subject due to the deeper treatment of the models and theories. The only aspect I would recommend it for is because it has Stiglitz wider view of the global tendencies intrinsically in some ways.

Comments

All I've to say is that is an excelent book is very useful in careers like economy is very intuitive and easy to understand