The Economics of Public Spending

• Extended introduction discusses the theory of public expenditure and the overall role of the public sector
• Cross-country comparisons of expenditure
• Investigation of alternative approaches to economic analysis
• Presents policy proposals

Readership: Undergraduates, practitioners, and anyone with an interest in the public sector.

Edited by David Miles, Imperial College Management School, Gareth Myles, Department of Economics, University of Exeter, and Ian Preston, Department of Economics, University College London

1: David Miles, Gareth Myles, and Ian Preston: Introduction
2: James Banks and Carl Emmerson: Public and Private Pension Spending: Principles, Practice and the Need for Reform
3: Carol Propper: Expenditure on Healthcare in the UK: A Review of the Issues
4: Jayasri Dutta, James Sefton, and Martin Weale: Education and Public Policy
5: Bruce D. Meyer: Unemployment and Workers' Compensation Programmes: Rationale, Design, Labour Supply, and Income Support
6: Ann Dryden Witte and Robert Witt: What We Spend and What We Get: Public and Private Provision of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
7: Todd Sandler and James C. Murdoch: On Sharing NATO Defence Burdens in the 1990s and Beyond
8: David Pearce and Charles Palmer: Public and Private Spending for Environmental Protection: A Cross-Country Policy Analysis
9: Clifford Winston: Government Failure in Urban Transportation
10: Alan Peacock: Public Financing of the Arts in England
11: Paul Stoneman: Government Spending on Research and Development in the UK