Covid-19 was the signal event of recent years, the impact of the pandemic is integrated in every part of this edition, first in the introduction and then within the statistical examples, applications and empirical evidence boxes. Making this a truly thorough revision for public policy today.
In addition to the thorough includion of covid 19 other new and expanded coverage includes political expediencies and positioning on energy policy, political polarization and policymaking, the future of the U.S. healthcare system, Universal Basic Income, the impact of recent tax reforms on labor supply, and efforts to tax wealth in Bidens administration.
Updated statistical graphs that further explore the importance of integrity and ignoring falsehoods in the news. Students will learn the role of the government, but also how to question key policies.
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This textbook is guided by the author’s contagious belief that at no other time has it been so important to know the facts, to distinguish facts from falsehoods, and to be thinking clearly about problem, policy, and politics. Gruber covers the fundamentals of public finance with an emphasis on responses to Covid-19, highlighting the variety of decisions that the government had to make and the controversies they engendered. Based on rigorous theory and cutting edge empirical evidence students are given policy oriented applications to issues relevant to their everyday lives. (Source: https://www.macmillanlearning.com/ed/uk/product/Public-Finance-and-Public-Policy--7th-edition/p/1319466923)