Robert P Inman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1471570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert P Inman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert P |
| FAMILY NAME | Inman |
| SIGNATURE | INMAN R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Making Cities Work
Making Cities Work brings together leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in today's fast-evolving economy. Successful cities provide jobs, quality schools, safe and clean neighborhoods, effective transportation, and welcoming spaces for all residents. But cities must be managed well if they are to remain attractive places to work, relax, and raise a family; otherw…
How Should Suburbs Help Their Central Cities? Growth- and Welfare-Enhancing Intrametropolitan Fiscal Distributions
Cities are the location of the great majority of economic activity in the United States and produce a disproportionate share of output. It is thus critical for the economy’s long-term growth that cities operate efficiently. In this article, the authors review the basic determinants of output growth, with a focus on productivity growth in cities. The authors then explore the effects of a particular distortion in politically fragmented metropolitan…
Transfers and Bailouts
Rethinking Federalism
The appropriate federal structure of government is now a policy issue of major debate. This paper identifies three approaches and compares their strengths and weaknesses. Economic federalism recommends the use of competitive communities for the provision of congestible local goods and a strong central government for the provision of pure public goods and spillovers. Cooperative federalism recommends intercommunity agreements; democratic federalis…
Local Interests, Central Leadership, and the Passage of TRA86
The U.S. federalist public economy is an ever-evolving system of financing and expenditure responsibilities between local, state, and federal governments. The past decades have seen a significant centralization of responsibility for the financing of state and local public services through grants-in-aid and federal tax subsidies. This article advances a model of local constituent influence in central government fiscal policies which seeks to expla…
State and Local Taxation Following TRA86
The extraordinary political changes of the past two years in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the move in western Europe toward a new economic integration, and the search for more responsive, more efficient fiscal policies in the United States have each pushed the task of designing appropriate federalist fiscal institutions onto center stage. The important questions of which levels of government-central, state or province, local-can be…
The Economic Consequences of Debilitating Illness
The economic consequences of debilitating illness are defined and then estimated for one such illness--multiple sclerosis. Economic losses are defined as the consumption losses to the affected household because of illness. These losses are measured as the change in earnings of all family members plus the increase in gross (not out-of-pocket) medical costs. Earnings models are specified and estimated, and gross medical costs calculated for multipl…
Checks Unbalanced
[Justifying Public Provision of Social Security]
Federal Aid and Public Education
"Municipal pension funding
On setting the agenda for Pennsylvania school finance reform
A generalized congestion function for highway travel
Testing political economy’s ‘as if’ proposition
The Economics of Public Services
Testing political economy’s ‘as if’ proposition
Rethinking Federalism
The appropriate federal structure of government is now a policy issue of major debate. This paper identifies three approaches and compares their strengths and weaknesses. Economic federalism recommends the use of competitive communities for the provision of congestible local goods and a strong central government for the provision of pure public goods and spillovers. Cooperative federalism recommends intercommunity agreements; democratic federalis…
A generalized congestion function for highway travel
Local Interests, Central Leadership, and the Passage of TRA86
The U.S. federalist public economy is an ever-evolving system of financing and expenditure responsibilities between local, state, and federal governments. The past decades have seen a significant centralization of responsibility for the financing of state and local public services through grants-in-aid and federal tax subsidies. This article advances a model of local constituent influence in central government fiscal policies which seeks to expla…
Transfers and Bailouts
Checks Unbalanced
[Justifying Public Provision of Social Security]
"Municipal pension funding
A generalized congestion function for highway travel
Testing political economy’s ‘as if’ proposition
The Economics of Public Services
"Municipal pension funding
On setting the agenda for Pennsylvania school finance reform
Federal Aid and Public Education
The Economic Consequences of Debilitating Illness
The economic consequences of debilitating illness are defined and then estimated for one such illness--multiple sclerosis. Economic losses are defined as the consumption losses to the affected household because of illness. These losses are measured as the change in earnings of all family members plus the increase in gross (not out-of-pocket) medical costs. Earnings models are specified and estimated, and gross medical costs calculated for multipl…
Checks Unbalanced
[Justifying Public Provision of Social Security]
Local Interests, Central Leadership, and the Passage of TRA86
The U.S. federalist public economy is an ever-evolving system of financing and expenditure responsibilities between local, state, and federal governments. The past decades have seen a significant centralization of responsibility for the financing of state and local public services through grants-in-aid and federal tax subsidies. This article advances a model of local constituent influence in central government fiscal policies which seeks to expla…
State and Local Taxation Following TRA86
The extraordinary political changes of the past two years in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the move in western Europe toward a new economic integration, and the search for more responsive, more efficient fiscal policies in the United States have each pushed the task of designing appropriate federalist fiscal institutions onto center stage. The important questions of which levels of government-central, state or province, local-can be…
Rethinking Federalism
The appropriate federal structure of government is now a policy issue of major debate. This paper identifies three approaches and compares their strengths and weaknesses. Economic federalism recommends the use of competitive communities for the provision of congestible local goods and a strong central government for the provision of pure public goods and spillovers. Cooperative federalism recommends intercommunity agreements; democratic federalis…
Transfers and Bailouts
Making Cities Work
Making Cities Work brings together leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in today's fast-evolving economy. Successful cities provide jobs, quality schools, safe and clean neighborhoods, effective transportation, and welcoming spaces for all residents. But cities must be managed well if they are to remain attractive places to work, relax, and raise a family; otherw…
How Should Suburbs Help Their Central Cities? Growth- and Welfare-Enhancing Intrametropolitan Fiscal Distributions
Cities are the location of the great majority of economic activity in the United States and produce a disproportionate share of output. It is thus critical for the economy’s long-term growth that cities operate efficiently. In this article, the authors review the basic determinants of output growth, with a focus on productivity growth in cities. The authors then explore the effects of a particular distortion in politically fragmented metropolitan…
Economics (12 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (11 works) · Public economics (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Microeconomics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public finance (4 works)