Public Economics and the Quality of Life

This book argues that, if redistribution was the dominant political theme of the 1960s, that of the 1970s would have been most assuredly quality. Furthermore, this seeks to poorly articulated normative concerns of physical and environmental planners to the intellectual tools, old and new, with which economists were addressing policy issues. This will be of particular interest among practitioners and theoreticians identified with the policy sciences.

Wingo Jr., Lowdon; Evans, Alan

Preface, Introduction, 1. Objective, Subjective, and Collective Dimensions of the Quality of Life, 2. Variations in the Quality of Urban Life Among Cities and Regions, 3. The Urban Disamenity Revisited, 4. Problems of Measuring the Quality of City Environments, 5. Local Government, the Property Tax, and the Quality of Life: Some Findings on Progressivity, 6. Justifiable Government Intervention in Preserving the Quality of Life, 7. The Quality of Life and the Limits of Cost-Benefit Analysis, 8. Property Values and the Benefits of Environmental Improvements: Theory and Measurement, 9. Estimating Access Values, 10. Neighborhood Externalities, Economic Clubs, and the Environment, 11. The Treatment of Externalities in National Income Statistics, 12. Conceptions of the Quality of Life in Theory and Practice, 13. Toward a New Civic Calculus, 14. Measuring the Quality of Life of the Elderly, 15. Reflections on the Quality of Working Life