Sumários

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Chapter 3: Public revenue: theory and practice

3.1. Major sources of public revenues

3.1.1. Types of public revenue

3.1.2. Desirable characteristics of a tax system

3.2. Taxation and efficiency

3.2.1 Taxes and inefficiency: the excess burden of taxation (introduction)

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Chapter 2: Public expenditure theory and practice

2.3. Expenditure and equity: income redistribution and equality of opportunity

2.3.1. Social optimality and the utility possibilities frontier (UPF)

2.3.2. The social welfare function (SWF): Utilitarianism and Rawlsianism

2.3.3. The optimal distribution of income

2.3.4. Merit Goods

2.3.5. The conflict efficiency vs. equity

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Public goods: exercises and discussion.

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2.2.3 Private versus public provision and production of goods and services

2.2.4 Externalities and mixed goods

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Chapter 2: Public expenditure: theory and practice

2.1. Some normative arguments about the role of the public sector

2.1.1. Market failures

2.1.2. Market injustices

2.2. Public expenditure and efficiency: public goods and externalities

2.2.1. Public goods versus private goods

2.2.2. The optimal provision of public goods