Coercion and Social Welfare in Public Finance : Economic and Political Perspectives (Hardcover)

1. Coercion, welfare, and the study of public finance Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Stanley L. Winer; Part I. Violence, Structured Anarchy, and the State: 2. The constitution of coercion: Wicksell, violence, and the ordering of society John J. Wallis; 3. Proprietary public finance: on its emergence and evolution out of anarchy Stergios Skaperdas; Part II. Voluntary and Coercive Transactions in Welfare Analysis: 4. Coercion, taxation, and voluntary association Roger D. Congleton; 5. Kaldor-Hicks coercion, Coasian bargaining, and the state Michael C. Munger; Part III. Coercion in Public Sector Economics: Theory and Application: 6. Non-coercion, efficiency and incentive compatibility in public goods John O. Ledyard; 7. Social welfare and coercion in public finance Stanley L. Winer, George Tridimas and Walter Hettich; 8. Lindahl fiscal incidence and the measurement of coercion Saloua Sehili and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez; 9. Fiscal coercion in federal systems, with special attention to highly divided societies Giorgio Brosio; Part IV. Coercion in the Laboratory: 10. Cooperating to resist coercion: an experimental study Lucy F. Ackert, Ann B. Gillette and Mark Rider; 11. Partial coercion, conditional cooperation, and self-commitment in voluntary contributions to public goods Elena Cettolin and Arno Riedl.