Example bank

• 1.1 The European Roots of Modern Public Sector Economics
• 2.1 Changes in the US government: expenditures and revenues
• 2.2 Government Sectors in the Industrialized Market Economies
• 4.1 Great Britain’s Lump-sum Community Charge
• 4.2 Happiness Surveys
• 5.1 Social Mobility in US
• 5.2 Equality in Europe vs. the US
• 6.1 Education Vouchers
• 7.1 Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons in Fishing with Individual Transferable Quotas
• 7.2 Reducing Greenhouse Gases: The European Union's Emissions Trading
  System
• 7.3 The Superfund
• 7.4 Pricing Traffic Congestion in Singapore and London
• 8.1 The Kyoto Protocol
• 8.2 The Economics of Terrorism: Externalities and Strategic Interaction
• 8.3 Defense Expenditures and the Samuelson Rule
• 8.4 The Copenhagen Accord
• 9.1 Huge US Rail Transit Deficits
• 9.2 Cable TV
• 10.1 Health Care Reform
• 11.1 The Take-Up of Public Assistance Programs
• 11.2 Welfare to Work – the Case of the UK Working Families Tax Credit
• 12.1 New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
• 12.2 On Large Federal Budget Deficits
• 12.3 Medicare
• 12.4 Adverse Selection in Annuity Markets
• 12.5 The Financial Crisis
• 12.6 The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (The Dodd-Frank Act)
• 13.1 State Lotteries
• 14.1 Tax Expenditures
• 14.2 Do Tax Incentives to Encourage Saving Actually Increase Saving?
• 14.3 Tax Reform
• 15.1 The Welfare Cost of Subsidies to Home Ownership in the Netherlands
• 15.2 Investment Incentives Under the US Corporation Income Tax
• 16.1 Taxing Internet Transactions
• 16.2 Income Taxation and the Trade-off Between Efficiency and Equity
• 17.1 Who Underpays Income Taxes in the U.S.?
• 17.2 Shadow Economies Throughout the World
• 18.1 Taxation and Alcohol Sales in Ireland
• 19.1 The Value Added Tax
• 20.1 Social discounting and the economics of climate change
• 20.2 Does the Clean Air Act Pass a Cost–Benefit Test?
• 20.3 Justifying Public Subsidies to Professional Sports Teams with Economic Impact Analyses
• 20.4 The Costs of Crime
• 20.5 The Value of a Life
• 21.1 Private Contracting for City Services
• 21.2 The Move Towards Decentralization
• 22.1 Tax Competition in the EU and the European Court of Justice
• 22.2 How Important is Tiebout Sorting in the United States?
• 23.1 Grants-in-aid and the European Union
• Epilogue: Implementing the New Behavioural Economics – the UK National Pension Saving Scheme

Denotes an international (non-US-based) example

Coming soon…

• For Chapter 10: Trends in Poverty in the United States
• For Chapter 12: The Future Burden of Unfunded Transfer Payments: United States, Finland, Germany, and the United Kingdom