Public Sector Economics and the Need for Reforms

Bys: Petros Varthalitis, Peter Birch S?rensen, George Economides, et al.

Theoretically and empirically informed studies on the role and efficiency of the public sector, public wage and employment policy, privatization, tax policy, and fiscal sustainability.

The public sector has grown substantially in the last fifty years. In the euro area, for example, total government expenditures have been around fifty percent of GDP since the early 2000s, resulting in a growing tax burden or high public debt or both...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262034441
• ISBN13: 9780262034449
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher