Public Economics after The Idea of Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2183618 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A B Atkinson |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 521-536 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9888 • E-ISSN: 1469-9516 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19452829.2012.703171 |
| OpenAlex | W1977860645 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
In this first lecture in honour of Amartya Sen, I examine the lessons that can be drawn from The Idea of Justice for public economics and the extent to which public economics has already moved in the direction advocated by Sen. More specifically, I focus on the current fiscal austerity programmes, and how the tools of public economics can be used to contribute to public reasoning about such programmes. I argue that they can help us think about the balance between cutting spending and raising taxes, and about the key role of public investment. But the Sen critique of welfare economics mean that we have to re-think public economics. The subject has been slow to absorb new ideas for the evaluative basis, and public economics, while extending its positive analysis to allow for international interactions, has failed to develop a normative approach to global justice
Austerity · Economic Justice · Economics · Honour · Macroeconomics · Neoclassical economics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public economics · Public finance · Sociology · Economic Theory and Policy · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law
Mathematical Psychics
Real National Income
An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation
Moral Luck
The Problem of Global Justice
The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure
The Structure and Reform of Direct Taxation
The Market and the State. Essays in Honour of Adam Smith
The Economics of Welfare
Social Choice and Multicriterion Decision-Making
The Idea of Justice
Measuring Advances in Equality of Opportunity
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2015 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |