Contents:
Foreword
1. Introduction
Brigitte Unger, Loek Groot and Daan van der Linde
2. Value Based Demarcation Between the Public and the Private
Domain
Klaas van Egmond
Part I Traditional Core Tasks of the State: Security
3. The Fight against Money Laundering: A Public Task?
Joras Ferwerda
4. Natural Disasters and (Future) Government Debt
Ian Koetsier
Part II New Core Tasks: Social Security
5. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Pension System
Designs
Ian Koetsier
6. Pension Provision: (Still) a Public Task?
Florian Blank
7. Protection Against Unemployment – A Res Publica?
Brigitte Unger
8. More Health Care or More Beer? A Curious Paradox of Making Some
Economic Tasks a Res Publica
Frans van Waarden
9. ECEC: Childcare Markets in the Netherlands and England
Trudie Knijn and Jane Lewis
Part III Public Goods
10. Housing Policy and Spatial Inequality: Recent Insights from
Vienna and Amsterdam
Gerlinde Gutheil-Knopp-Kirchwald and Justin Kadi
11. Funding of Protected Areas: A Purely Public Task?
Grazia Withalm
12. The Role of Governments in Conserving and Funding Cultural
Institutions
Michael Getzner
13. Income Distribution as a Public Task: The Redistributive
Preferences of (Mis)informed Voters
Daan van der Linde
14. Conclusions
Brigitte Unger, Michael Getzner and Daan van der Linde
Index
Edited by Brigitte Unger, Utrecht University School of Economics, the Netherlands and former Director, Institute of Economic and Social Research WSI in Dusseldorf, Germany, Daan van der Linde, Utrecht University School of Economics, the Netherlands and Michael Getzner, Center of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy, Department of Spatial Planning, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
‘The editors have gathered an impressive multidisciplinary team of
authors, which mirrors Egons Matzner's socio-economic and
interdisciplinary approach to public finance: The authors are
academics from economics, sociology, political science, geography
and spatial planning. . . The contributions in this book form an
indispensable starting point for all those who want to deal with
questions of public goods and the common good in a fundamental and
modern non-neoclassical way.'
*European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention*
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