PUBLIC FINANCE 6E - Hardcover

HYMAN

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0030213088 ISBN 13: 9780030213083

Publisher: South-Western College Pub, 1998

Synopsis

This work provides an overview of public finance with a discussion of externalities, public goods, public choice, government expenditures, social insurance, aid to the poor, budget deficits, taxation, and state and local government finance.

About this title

About the Author:

David N. Hyman, professor of economics and alumni distinguished undergraduate professor at North Carolina State University, has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in public finance there since 1969. Professor Hyman received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University. He has held Woodrow Wilson, Earhart, and Ford Foundation fellowships and was a Fullbright senior research scholar in Italy in 1980. In 1997, he was visiting professor of economics at the University of Ferrara in Italy. Professor Hyman is a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers at North Carolina State University and received the Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award in 1982 and 1996. He is the author of several widely used textbooks in economics and has published scholarly articles in the NATIONAL TAX JOURNAL, PUBLIC CHOICE, the JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS EDUCATION, and other respected academic journals. Professor Hyman served the President's Council of Economic Advisors as a consultant and senior staff economist from 1988 to 1989. He also has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and has worked as a government budget analyst and as an economist for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency. Professor Hyman also is a photographer whose palladium and platinum prints are in the permanent collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His photographs have been exhibited by galleries and museums and have been published in art books and on the covers of several novels.

About this edition

• Publisher: South-Western College Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0030213088
• ISBN 13: 9780030213083
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 656