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Public goods and private wants : a psychological approach to government spending / Simon Kemp.
Lippincott Library HJ7461 .K46 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kemp, Simon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Government spending policy--Public opinion.
- Government spending policy.
- Taxation--Public opinion.
- Taxation.
- Expenditures, Public--Public opinion.
- Expenditures, Public.
- Public welfare--Public opinion.
- Public welfare.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2002]
- Contents:
- 2. Economics and Public Goods 8
- 3. Government Spending in Democracies 35
- 4. Quality of Life 51
- 5. Methods of Assessing Value 72
- 6. Psychophysical Scaling of Value 94
- 7. Taxation and its Relationship to Spending 114
- 8. Valuation and Knowledge of Cost 125
- 9. What Do People Want the Government to Undertake? 143.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1840649739
- OCLC:
- 49903262
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