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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

Part I. Violence, Structured Anarchy, and the State:

2. The constitution of coercion: Wicksell, violence, and the ordering of society
3. Proprietary public finance: on its emergence and evolution out of anarchy

Part II. Voluntary and Coercive Transactions in Welfare Analysis:

4. Coercion, taxation, and voluntary association
5. Kaldor-Hicks coercion, Coasian bargaining, and the

Part III. Coercion in Public Sector Economics: Theory and Application:

6. Non-coercion, efficiency and incentive compatibility in public goods
7. Social welfare and coercion in public finance
8. Lindahl fiscal incidence and the measurement of coercion
9. Fiscal coercion in federal systems, with special attention to highly divided societies

Part IV. Coercion in the Laboratory:

10. Cooperating to resist coercion: an experimental study
11. Partial coercion, conditional cooperation, and self-commitment in voluntary contributions to public goods


ISBN: 9781107636897 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Public finance
Social welfare
Taxation

Dewey Class. No.: 336.001 MAR