Public Economics sixth edition is a southern African text on the subject, written by well-respected and well-known South African experts. Dealing with current issues such as social security and health care, the textbook demonstrates how public economic theory is relevant to the real-world context. Public Economics sixth edition equips senior undergraduate and postgraduate students with basic analytic skills to demonstrate the application of these to practical issues.

Features

• Example boxes show how theoretical concepts can be applied
• End-of-chapter questions provide students with the opportunities to self-assess their knowledge
• Multiple-choice questions at the end of each chapter with solutions
• Important concepts are explicitly defined and are specific to the discipline
• Discussion on the redistributive impact of major social policy interventions
• Information on the behavioural effects of social grants and empirical findings for South Africa.
• A new section on the fiscal sustainability of government's debt
• An extended section of the Tiebout model and a new section on urban economics.