My thesis was 425 pages and it goes for the same price. A bargain!
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From: Doug Henwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Max Sawicky wrote:
>Bastids. selling my diss for money. Outrageous.
Wow. And just $29.95! The Laffer effect? How kinky of you, Max.
>ON THE FISCAL BEHAVIOR OF STATE GOVERNMENTS
>by max ben sawicky
>Degree : PHD
>School : UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK (0117)
>Date : 1991
>Pages : 237
>Advisor: wallace e. oates
>Subject: economics, finance (0508); political science, public
>administration (0617)
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>ABSTRACT
>This study proposes improvements in the standard single-equation
>median voter model often used to explain public spending levels. The
>improvements entail a comprehensive accounting of state revenue
>sources, a precise specification of state tax structure, a more
>general specification of congestion, attention to environmental
>effects on the production and consumption of public goods, and most
>important, allowances for an endogenous tax price and resource
>constraint. Variability of the tax price is due to the erosion of
>the tax base, what could be identified as a 'Laffer effect,' and to
>multi-part, closed-ended matching grants. The extended model yields
>empirical results which differ from standard treatments and which
>call into question some of the conventional wisdom on public
>spending. Spec ........
