The Economics of public services : proceedings of a conference held by the International Economic Association at Turin, Italy

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Housing Allowances, Income Maintenance and Income Taxation....Pages 3-16 Public Expenditure for Housing: The Italian Case....Pages 17-25 Front Matter....Pages 27-27 Efficiency and Equity in Public Education Expenditures....Pages 29-44 On Measuring the Redistribution of Lifetime Income....Pages 45-72 Front Matter....Pages 73-73 Jury Size and Composition: An Economic Approach....Pages 75-115 Theory and Estimation in Models of Crime and its Social Control and their Relations to Concepts of Social Output....Pages 116-147 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 Demographic Effects on the Equity of Social Security Benefits....Pages 151-173 Social Security and Private Savings: International Evidence in an Extended Life-Cycle Model....Pages 174-205 A Social Security System and Short-Term Economic Policy....Pages 206-230 Redistribution through Social Security: A Lesson from Italy....Pages 231-250 Front Matter....Pages 251-251 The Supply of Communal Goods and Revenue Sharing....Pages 253-273 The Theory of Local Public Goods....Pages 274-333 The City as a Firm....Pages 334-343 The Assignment Problem in Federal Structures....Pages 344-357 Front Matter....Pages 359-359 Optimal Taxation and Public Production with Budget Constraints....Pages 361-389 A Challenge to the Monopoly of the Rate of Discount in Investment Choices....Pages 390-403 Transportation as a Public Service in the USSR....Pages 404-411 Front Matter....Pages 413-413 On the Political Economy of Public Service....Pages 415-434 Some Considerations on the Productive Capacity of Consumption Expenditures....Pages 435-446 Front Matter....Pages 447-447 Report on the Proceedings....Pages 449-522 Back Matter....Pages 523-529