Public Finance, 10th Edition By Harvey Rosen, Ted Gayer

application of tax systems federal deficits and potential overhauls comprehensive evaluations of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Cost-Benefit Analysis – measuring and comparing the present value of social costs and benefits Deficit Finance – Macroeconomic impacts of government borrowing Education – Government involvement public funding subsidies and the economics of school vouchers Efficient and Equitable Taxation – Optimal taxation theory tax evasion and designing fair tax frameworks Empirical methods used by economists to determine cause-and-effect relationships in policy Expenditure Programs for the Poor – Means-tested safety-net programs Externalities – Positive and negative externalities (e.g. pollution) and market-based solutions like Pigouvian taxes flat tax national sales tax Value-Added Tax (VAT) and estate taxes Framework for Tax Analysis Fundamental Tax Reform: Taxes on Consumption and Wealth Government and the Market for Health Care Income Redistribution: Conceptual Issues – Poverty measurement ISBN-13: 978-0077154691 ISBN-13: 978-0078021688 ISBN-13: 978-1259210341 ISBN-13: 978-1259716874 measuring the national debt and the burden of debt across generations Personal Taxation and Behavior – How taxes affect real-world choices regarding labor supply savings and housing philosophical rationales for redistribution and welfare criteria Political Economy – Public choice theory voting models and government decisions Public Expenditure: Public Goods and Externalities Public Expenditures: Social Insurance and Income Maintenance Public Goods – Defining non-rival and non-excludable goods alongside the free-rider problem Social Security – The structure financing economic effects and long-term viability of federal retirement systems TANF SNAP and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Taxation and Efficiency – Deadweight loss (excess burden) and how taxes distort consumer and producer decisions Taxation and Income Distribution –who ultimately bears the economic burden of taxation The Corporation Tax – The structure of corporate taxes and the debate over global vs. territorial taxation for multinational firms The economic structure of Medicare Medicaid The Health Care Market private health insurance markets (asymmetric information and moral hazard) The Personal Income Tax –federal income tax code deductions exemptions and the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) The role of government in the economy and a historical overview of public expenditures The United States Revenue System Welfare economics efficiency vs. equity trade-offs and the rationale for government intervention