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Public Finance and Public Policy

Seventh  Edition©2022  Jonathan Gruber

ISBN:9781319399030

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The COVID pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the way the federal government budgets and spends. There’s no one better than Jonathan Gruber, one of the original architects of The Affordable Care Act, to guide you through the fundamental concepts and new realities of public finance with Public Finance and Public Policy, 7th Edition.

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Table of Contents

PART I Introduction and Background
1  Why Study Public Finance? 
2  Theoretical Tools of Public Finance 
3 Empirical Tools of Public Finance 
4 Budget Analysis and Deficit Financing 


PART II Externalities and Public Goods
5  Externalities: Problems and Solutions 
6   Externalities in Action: Environmental and Health Externalities 
7 Public Goods 
8 Cost-Benefit Analysis 
9 Political Economy 
10 State and Local Government Expenditures 
11 Education 


PART III Social Insurance and Redistribution
12 Social Insurance: The New Function of Government 
13 Social Security 
14 Unemployment Insurance, Disability Insurance, and Workers’ Compensation 
15 Health Insurance I: Health Economics and Private Health Insurance 
16 Health Insurance II: Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Care Reform 
17 Income Distribution and Welfare Programs 


PART IV Taxation in Theory and Practice
18 Taxation: How It Works and What It Means 
19 The Equity Implications of Taxation: Tax Incidence 
20 Tax Inefficiencies and Their Implications for Optimal Taxation 
21 Taxes on Labor Supply 
22 Taxes on Savings 
23 Taxes on Risk Taking and Wealth 
24 Taxation of Business Income 
25  Fundamental Tax Reform and Consumption Taxation 

Glossary G-1
References R-1
Index I-1

Jonathan Gruber

Dr. Jonathan Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992. He is also the former Director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the former President of the American Society of Health Economists. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Econometric Society. He has published more than 180 research articles, has edited six research volumes, and is the author of Public Finance and Public Policy, a leading undergraduate text, Health Care Reform, a graphic novel, and Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream (with Simon Johnson). In 2006 he received the American Society of Health Economists Inaugural Medal for the best health economist in the nation aged 40 and under.

During the 1997-1998 academic year, Dr. Gruber was on leave as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department. From 2003-2006 he was a key architect of Massachusetts’ health reform effort, and in 2006 became an inaugural member of the Health Connector Board. During 2009-2010 he served as a technical consultant to the Obama Administration and worked with the Administration and Congress to help craft the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In 2011 he was named “One of the Top 25 Most Innovative and Practical Thinkers of Our Time” by Slate Magazine. In both 2006 and 2012 he was rated as one of the top 100 most powerful people in health care in the United States by Modern Healthcare Magazine. In 2020 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.