Public Microeconomics: Efficiency and Equity in Public Policy

by Joaquim Silvestre

This book contains a concise, simple, yet precise discussion of externalities, public goods and insurance. Rooted in the first fundamental theorem of welfare economics and in noncooperative equilibrium, it employs elementary calculus. The book presents established theory in novel ways, and offers the tools for the application of the social welfare criteria of efficiency and equity to environmental economics, networks, bargaining, political economy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857932071
• ISBN13: 9780857932075
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages