Editors Auerbach, Chetty, Feldstein, and Saez offer this research volume on a few key issues in public economics. The first chapter addresses charitable giving and explores its motivations from
social, market, and tax perspectives. The relationship of tax structure to development and an investigation of social insurance theory and program design are presented next. Urban public
finance receives a chapter, discussing the functions and spending flows of local governance. The last three issues addressed all pertain to taxation: theory of international tax competition and
coordination, intergenerational wealth transfer including avoidance responses to estate taxes, and income tax organization, the chapter for which discusses optimal tax theory, linear and
nonlinear approaches, and in-kind transfers of welfare programs. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
