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| Abbreviations | ||
| List of Figures and Tables | ||
| Advent | 3 | |
| I | A Difficult Road Ahead | |
| 1 | Introduction | 11 |
| 2 | Finance: Origins, Branches, and Lacunae | 25 |
| Origins and Evolution | 25 | |
| The Branches of Finance | 27 | |
| Lacuna: International Public Finance | 35 | |
| Implications for the Future | 39 | |
| II | Why Public Finance? Overview and Applications to the International Arena | |
| 3 | Pareto and Welfare Economics | 47 |
| The Pareto Criterion | 47 | |
| The Real World | 50 | |
| Beyond Pareto | 51 | |
| 4 | Market Failures: The Free-Rider Problem, Public Goods, and Externalities | 53 |
| The Free Rider Problem | 54 | |
| Public Goods | 56 | |
| Externalities | 66 | |
| 5 | Market Failures: Competitive Breakdowns, Incomplete Markets, and Information Failures | 78 |
| Breakdowns of Competition | 78 | |
| Incomplete Markets and Information | 85 | |
| Information Failures | 90 | |
| 6 | Poverty Alleviation and Distributional Equity | 93 |
| Efficiency and Distribution | 93 | |
| Measures of Equality and Inequality | 94 | |
| Inequality within and between Nations | 96 | |
| National and International Redistribution | 97 | |
| Economic Approaches to Equity: Efficiency, the Pareto Criterion, and the Cost-Benefit Test | 99 | |
| Ethical Considerations: The Case Against Distributive Equity | 101 | |
| Ethical Considerations: The Case for Distributive Equity | 102 | |
| Utilitarianism and Rawls | 104 | |
| Some Caveats | 107 | |
| Some Conclusions on Ethical Considerations | 108 | |
| Practical Considerations | 109 | |
| Further Comparisons of Intranational and International Income Distribution | 111 | |
| 7 | Stabilization and Coordination | 115 |
| Stabilization and Coordination | 115 | |
| The Issue of Commodities Stabilization | 129 | |
| 8 | The Political Process | 140 |
| Public Choice | 141 | |
| Merit Wants | 149 | |
| Fiscal Federalism | 154 | |
| III | The Changing Patterns of International Public Administration and Finance | |
| 9 | International Public Administration and Finance: Origins and Development | 159 |
| Origins in Imperialism | 159 | |
| The Development of International Functionalism | 164 | |
| World War II and Bretton Woods | 166 | |
| Bilateralism | 171 | |
| Toward a Universal System | 174 | |
| Emergence of the Regional Development Banks | 179 | |
| 10 | The Present Pattern: The Main Actors | 181 |
| Some Definitions | 182 | |
| The Bilateral Assistance Programs | 184 | |
| The Multilateral Development Assistance Institutions | 192 | |
| The United Nations System | 205 | |
| IV | Elements of a System of International Public Finance | |
| 11 | International Taxation: Beyond the Nation-State | 213 |
| Revenue Taxes | 214 | |
| Legal and Administrative Arrangements | 218 | |
| Political Considerations | 219 | |
| Distributive Taxes | 220 | |
| Tax on Positive Externalities: The South-North "Brain Drain" | 221 | |
| Pigovian Taxes | 226 | |
| 12 | The Global Commons: Regulation and Revenues | 232 |
| The Concept of the Common | 232 | |
| Charges for the Use of the Global Commons | 234 | |
| The Oceans | 235 | |
| Navigation and Oversight | 241 | |
| The Disputed Commons: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean | 242 | |
| The Moon and Other Celestial Bodies | 252 | |
| "Parking Fees" for Geostationary Satellites | 253 | |
| The Electromagnetic Spectrum | 258 | |
| 13 | Macroeconomic and Other Measures | 261 |
| Monetary Measures | 261 | |
| Other Fund-raising Proposals | 273 | |
| Disarmament | 276 | |
| 14 | Conclusion: The Bottom Lines | 279 |
| Notes | 283 | |
| Bibliography | 305 | |
| Index | 321 |
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reviewed International Public Finance: A New Perspective on Global Relations on July 17, 2013
International Public Finance: A New Perspective on Global Relations
I haven't been able to find another book quite like this one, I'm so glad the author wrote this book! He exposes the unethical and shady ways that Salliemae dominates the market for student loans (paying universities to make them the primary lender, acquiring other companies, acquiring guarantors and getting the profit for payments made on defaulted loans, etc.). He also addresses how bad things are in the student loan world. Did you know that once you consolidate your loans, it is against the law to re-consolidate them with another lender for a lower rate? Free market principles have no hold in the student loan market, where universities, the department of education, and guarantors are in SallieMae's pocket.
Most frightening is that if you default on your loan, your life is basically over. You can't declare bankruptcy and discharge that debt, even if with private loans. If you don't pay, your wages can be garnished, your disability check or social security can be dipped into, and even your employment can be in jeopardy. In some cases, people have had their licenses to practice medicine taken away because they defaulted on student loans. Collections agencies have contacted borrower's employments to have their wages garnished or get them fired. Just how are they supposed to pay back on these loans if their employment is taken away? Sallie mae is more profitable when people default on their loans, and the author has brought to light incidents where Sallie Mae has allowed loans to go quietly into default for this reason. They don't want you to pay off your debt, they make FAR more money if you are paying them for life.
The bottom line is that all consumer protections have been taken away. When people are committing suicide or leaving the country to escape the stress of their ballooned debt that they've made good efforts to pay, it's time for a change. EVERYONE with student loans should read this book, if nothing else to realize how bad things can get if you get into a rough patch where you can't pay on your loans.
The author was slightly repetitive about some information, but the information he provided was valuable enough to overlook the weaknesses in his writing.
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