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Coercion and social welfare in public finance : economic and political perspectives / edited by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Stanley L. Winer - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014. - xiii, 353 p. ; 21 cm.

1. Coercion, welfare, and the study of public finance Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Stanley L. Winer; Part I. Violence, Structured Anarchy, and the State:
2. The constitution of coercion: Wicksell, violence, and the ordering of society John J. Wallis;
3. Proprietary public finance: on its emergence and evolution out of anarchy Stergios Skaperdas; Part II. Voluntary and Coercive Transactions in Welfare Analysis:
4. Coercion, taxation, and voluntary association Roger D. Congleton;
5. Kaldor-Hicks coercion, Coasian bargaining, and the state Michael C. Munger; Part III. Coercion in Public Sector Economics: Theory and Application:
6. Non-coercion, efficiency and incentive compatibility in public goods John O. Ledyard;
7. Social welfare and coercion in public finance Stanley L. Winer, George Tridimas and Walter Hettich; 8. Lindahl fiscal incidence and the measurement of coercion Saloua Sehili and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez;
9. Fiscal coercion in federal systems, with special attention to highly divided societies Giorgio Brosio; Part IV. Coercion in the Laboratory:
10. Cooperating to resist coercion: an experimental study Lucy F. Ackert, Ann B. Gillette and Mark Rider;
11. Partial coercion, conditional cooperation, and self-commitment in voluntary contributions to public goods Elena Cettolin and Arno Riedl.
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ISBN: 9781107636897

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Public finance
Social welfare

Dewey Class. No.: 336.001 MAR