Contents:
Part I - Social Choice and allocation mechanisms 1 - Measuring marginal utility by reactions to risk 2 - Utility, strategy, and social decision rules 3 - Counterspeculation, auctions and competitive sealed tenders 4 - Auctions and bidding games Part II - Taxation 5 - Averaging of income for income tax purposes 6 - Cumulative averaging after thirty years 7 - An integrated successions tax 8 - Expenditure, capital gains, and the basis of progressive taxation 9 - The problem of progression Part III - Marginal-cost pricing 10 - Marginal and average cost pricing 11 - Some objections to marginal-cost pricing 12 - Responsive pricing of public utility services 13 - Airline overbooking: some further solutions Part IV - Pricing urban transportation 14 - A proposal for revising New York's subway fare structure 15 - Pricing in Urban and suburban transport 16 - Congestion theory and transport investment Part V - Urban Economics 17 - The city as a firm 18 - General and specific financing of urban services 19 - The impact on land values of taxing buildings Part VI - Macroeconomic policy 20 - The optimum trend of prices 21 - Design of a market anti-inflation program 22 - Necessary and optimum government debt 23 - Today's task for economists Part VII - Miscellany 24 - Resource distribution patterns and the classification of families 25 - On the prevention of gerrymandering 26 - One economist's view of philanthropy
BookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University, 1994Description: 558 p.Subject(s): Economia Urbana
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