Public Economics (MPA Public Administration Series)

Author: Fan Yongming et al.
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Publish Date: 2004-05-02
Features: Public Economics is one of the core courses for MPA professional teaching, as well as a basic required course for undergraduate and junior college majors in public administration. This book is divided into ten chapters, systematically and comprehensively elaborating on the fundamental concepts and principles of public economics, including resource allocation and government functions, public goods and public choice theory, national budget, the theory and practice of public expenditure and public revenue, income distribution and social security, public economics and national economic regulation, as well as local public economics. The book explains and analyzes the functions and roles that the government should have under a market economy system from an economic perspective. As a newly emerging discipline, public economics was introduced to China only recently. Therefore, many concepts and principles in this book are interpretations and elaborations of the views of Western scholars. Western scholars proposed their perspectives on public economics based on the conditions of Western countries, and readers can judge, draw lessons from, and assimilate these ideas according to the conditions of China. This book can serve as both a basic textbook for MPA courses and a teaching material for government economics courses for majors in politics and public administration at junior colleges and universities.