James M. Buchanan and the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice: Extending the Italian Tradition of Public Finance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Public Choice

Das Gemeindesteuersystem erneut auf dem Prüfstand. Ökonomische Bewertung der Erfolgsaussichten einer modifizierten Variante des Reformmodells der Stiftung Marktwirtschaft

2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Döring
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Public Choice ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Political Discussion ◽  
Government Finance ◽  
Reform Initiatives ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Local Government Finance ◽  
German Cities

AbstractIn Germany, the current situation of local government finance is still worrying. Up to now, all political attempts to reform the German local tax system fundamentally led to no satisfying result. For this reason, new reform initiatives gain particular attention in scientific and political discussion. Against this background, the paper examines the proposal for reform of the existing local tax system presented by Stiftung Marktwirtschaft. By highlighting public finance characteristics of economically reasonable local government finances as well as public choice characteristics of a politically successful reform, it will be shown that within some small but important modifications the proposal of Stiftung Marktwirtschaft is in a position to solve local government finance problems in a durable manner. This result is consecuted by an empirical simulation of the fiscal effects for all German local authorities. The fiscal simulation demonstrates that more then ninety percent of German cities and municipalities will gain from a political implementation of the proposal for reform.

Politische Folgen finanzwissenschaftlicher Konzepte / Political consequence of public finance

ORDO ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles B. Blankart
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Public Choice ◽  
Political Consequence

ZusammenfassungIm ersten Teil des Aufsatzes wird dargelegt, wie finanzwissenschaftliche Konzepte in der Vergangenheit politisch umgesetzt worden sind, wie sie Prosperität und Krisen, Freud und Leid verursacht haben. Untersucht werden die römische Governance, das mittelalterliche Lehnswesen, die vertragslose Anarchie in der frühen Neuzeit, der Kameralismus in Deutschland und der Merkantilismus in Frankreich. Diese Konzepte vergangener Zeiten gehen dann in die modernen Konzepte von optimaler Besteuerung und Public Choice über. Optimale Besteuerung betrachtet die Wohlfahrtskosten der Besteuerung, lässt aber die Opportunitätskosten von Staatsausgaben unbeachtet. Public Choice integriert beide, Wohlfahrtsökonomik und Opportunitätskosten im Konzept einer Bürgersteuer.

On James Buchanan's Public Choice Enterprise

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-75
Author(s):  
Francesco Forte
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Choice ◽  
The Political ◽  
James Buchanan ◽  
Classical Sense ◽  
Gordon Tullock ◽  
Natural Progression ◽  
Directed Research ◽  
The University

Abstract James Buchanan came to Italy in 1955 as Fulbright visiting professor until July 1956 and made his research at the library of the Bank of Italy. He visited the University of Pavia, a quite famous center for public finance studies, still directed by Benvenuto Griziotti. On that occasion I became acquainted with professor Buchanan and our longlasting friendship started soon. On his itinerary from the political economy perspective to public choice that James Buchanan did undertake, after the Italian 1955-56 visit, he has written: «After Italy I was prepared, intellectually, psychologically and emotionally to join in an entrepreneurial venture with my Virginia colleague Warren Nutter, a venture aimed at bringing renewed emphasis to ‘political economy’ in a classical sense. And from these beginnings, the more directed research spin-off into the ‘economics of politics’ initiated jointly with my colleague Gordon Tullock, now seems a natural progression»

Public Finance and Public Choice

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Buchanan ◽  
Richard A. Musgrave
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Public Choice
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