Topic: The United Kingdom should decentralise the provision of publicly provided goods and servicesOrder DescriptionCOURSE NAME: Public Sector EconomicsMUST READING!!:Ter-Minassian, Mrs Teresa, ed. Fiscal federalism in theory and practice. International Monetary Fund, 1997.Oates, Wallace E. “Toward a second-generation theory of fiscal federalism.“International tax and public finance 12, no. 4 (2005): 349-373.Darby, Julia, A. V. Muscatelli, and Graeme Roy. “Fiscal federalism and fiscal autonomy: lessons for the UK from other industrialised countries.” Scottish Affairs 41 (2002): 26-55.Ahmad, Ehtisham. Handbook of fiscal federalism. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006.Rodden, Jonathan. Hamilton’s paradox: the promise and peril of fiscal federalism. Cambridge University Press, 2006.KEY TEXTS:1. Stephen Bailey, Public Sector Economics, 2nd ed. (Palgrave, 2002)2. Harvey S. Rosen and Ted Gayer, Public Finance, 9th ed. (McGraw Hill, 2010). An alternative is Jonathan Gruber, Public Finance and Public Policy, 4th edn. (Worth Publishers, 2013).3. Griffiths and Wall, Applied Economics, 12th ed. ( Prentice Hall, 2012). Chapters on The Distribution of Income and Wealth (13), Public Expenditure(18) and Taxation(19) provide very useful summaries of much of the course.
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