TY - BOOK AU - Silvestre,Joaquim TI - Public microeconomics : : efficiency and equity in public policy SN - 9781781951903 U1 - 330.1556 / 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Cheltenham : PB - Edward Elgar, KW - Welfare economics. KW - Welfare economics KW - Mathematics. KW - Wohlfahrtstheorie N1 - Private goods without externalities. -- Externalities. -- Public goods. -- Public utilities. -- Uncertainty and asymmetrical information N2 - This book contains a concise, simple, yet precise discussion of externalities, public goods and insurance. Rooted in the first fundamental theorem of welfare economics and in noncooperative equilibrium, it employs elementary calculus. The book presents established theory in novel ways, and offers the tools for the application of the social welfare criteria of efficiency and equity to environmental economics, networks, bargaining, political economy, and the pricing of public goods and public utilities ER -