Political economy and public finance: a brief introduction

Stanley Winer () and Hirofumi Shibata

Chapter 1 in Political Economy and Public Finance, 2002 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: There is a long-standing difference amongst public economists between those who think that collective choice must be formally acknowledged, and those who derive their policy recommendations from a social planning framework in which politics plays no role. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a meaningful dialogue between these two groups, in the belief that the future of both political economy and of normative public finance lies somewhere between the two approaches. Some of the specific questions addressed in the book include: does public finance need political economy? Should collective choice play a role in the standard of reference used in normative public finance? What is a ‘failure' in a non-market or policy process? And what have we learned about the theory and practice of public finance from three decades of empirical research on public choice? The book also provides a practitioner's view of the political economy of redistribution.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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