This book tackles political, social, and behavioural aspects of public finance and fiscal exchange. The book combines conventional approaches toward public fina

Behavioral economics questions the basic underpinnings of economic theory, showing that people often do not act consistently in their own self-interest when mak

Argues that public finance--the study of the government's role in economics--should incorporate principles from behavior economics and other branches of psychol

Standard models in economics and finance usually assume that people are rational, self-interested maximisers, effectively co-ordinated via the invisible hand of

The second edition of Public Finance and Public Policy retains the first edition's themes of investigation of responsibilities and limitations of government. Th