|
|
|
Theories and International Evidence
Norman Gemmell
ISBN: 9781852785253
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Write a review
This important new book offers fresh insights into the growth of the public sector in advanced and developing economies. The economic causes and consequences of changes in the size of the public sector (especially changes in public expenditure) have fascinated economists from the time of Adam Smith. From the early 1960s, interest has focused particularly on changes in the share of national income devoted to public expenditure. This has exhibited a long…
At a time when there is growing concern in many countries over the funding of expanding public sectors, this new book examines the economics of public sector growth. Several chapters document changes in the size of the public sector over recent decades for major OECD and Third World economies. Subsequent chapters then explore prominent explanations including public choice perspectives, bureaucracy models, relative price effects and Wagner's Law and assess their contribution to current knowledge. The book also provides a number of new case studies of specific government activities - education, health and social security.
| ISBN | 185278525X | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | | ISBN13 | 9781852785253
(What's this?) | | Pages | 288 | | Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 606 | | Imprint | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd | | Published in | Cheltenham | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 09 Mar 1993 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Library of Congress | HJ7461.G76 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate | | DEWEY | 350.0001 | |
|
| |
| | | Preface | | | | | | Acknowledgements | | | | | | Contributors | | | | 1 | | The Public Sector: Definition and Measurement Issues by Norman Gemmell | | | | 1.2 | | Defining the public sector | | 2 | | 1.3 | | Measuring public sector size and growth | | 4 | | 1.4 | | Outline of the book | | 9 | | Pt. I | | Public Sector Growth: Some Evidence | | | | 2 | | Recent Trends in the Size and Growth of Government in OECD Countries by Peter Saunders | | | | 2.2 | | Measuring the size of government | | 18 | | 2.3 | | Comparative trends in general government size since 1970 | | 21 | | 2.4 | | The structure of government outlays | | 25 | | 3 | | Recent Trends in the Size and Growth of Government in Developing Countries by David Lim | | | | 3.1 | | Size and growth of the public sector | | 34 | | 3.2 | | Central government expenditure by function | | 40 | | 3.3 | | Central government expenditure by economic type | | 44 | | 3.4 | | Sources of central government current revenue | | 47 | | 3.5 | | Further research | | 49 | | Pt. II | | Theoretical Perspectives | | | | 4 | | The Peacock-Wiseman Hypothesis by Magnus Henrekson | | | | 4.2 | | The hypothesis | | 54 | | 4.3 | | A review of previous empirical tests | | 59 | | 4.4 | | A critical assessment of previous empirical tests | | 61 | | 4.5 | | A more adequate test | | 63 | | 5 | | Public Expenditure and Political Process by Alan Hamlin | | | | | More... | | |
|
|
|
|
|
Enlarge
