TY - BOOK AU - Feldstein,Martin S. AU - Inman,Robert P. TI - The Economics of public services SN - 0333195434 AV - HJ113 .E35 1977 U1 - 336 PY - 1977/// CY - London, Basingstoke PB - The Macmillan Press Ltd. KW - Finance, Public KW - Expenditures, Public N1 - Proceedings of a conference held by the International Economic Association at Turin, Italy; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This book contains a conference report that was sponsored by the Agnelli Foundation of Turin, Italy. The conference was designed to explore the specific contributions that economic analysis can make to the study of particular type of public programmes. There were several common themes present in many of the papers. Perhaps most common was the emphasis that considerations of distributional equity, as well as the traditional notion of economic efficiency, were important in the design and evaluation of public services. Another common theme was the role of decentralization. And the third general theme was the importance of general equilibrium effects ER -