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About this Cambridge Elements series
The Cambridge Elements of Public Economics will provide authoritative and up-to-date reviews of core topics and recent developments in the field. The Elements will include state-of-the-art contributions on optimal taxation and tax policy, business taxation and risk taking, tax evasion and compliance, public finance and development, fiscal transfers in a multigovernment setting, public debt, and the main tasks of the government in relation to public goods, externalities, health, education and knowledge, pensions and social insurance, equity and redistribution, public investment and cost-benefit analysis, public enterprises, privatization and regulation. The editors are particularly interested in the new frontiers of quantitative methods in public economics, experimental approaches , behavioral public finance, empirical and theoretical analyisis of the quality of government and institutions.
About the Editors
Frank A. Cowell is Professor of Economics and the London School of Economics. His main research interests are in inequality, mobility and the distribution of income and wealth. He is past editor of Economica and currently Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Inequality. He is president of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality. His recent books include Cheating the Government (The MIT Press, 1990), Economic Inequality and Income Distribution (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998), Thinking about Inequality (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999), Measuring Inequality (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Massimo Florio is Professor of Public Economics, University of Milan. His main interests are in cost-benefit analysis, regional policy, privatization, public enterprise, network industries and the socio-economic impact of research infrastructures. He has led several international evaluation studies for the European Commission, the European Parliament, the EIB, the OECD, the World Bank, and CERN. His books include: The Great Divestiture. Evaluating the welfare impact of the British Privatizations (MIT Press, 2006); Network Industries and Social Welfare. The Experiment that Reshuffled European Utilities (Oxford University Press 2013); Applied Welfare Economics. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Projects and Policies (Routledge 2014); and recently two edited books: Infrastructure Finance in Europe. Insights into the History of Water, Transport and Telecommunications (Oxford University Press 2016) and The Economics of Infrastructure Provisioning. The Changing Role of the State (the MIT Press 2015).
Associate Editor
Chiara F. Del Bo is Associate Professor of Public Economics at Università degli Studi di Milano. She has co-edited special issues for NPJ Urban Sustainability, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Regional Science Policy and Practice and Scienze Regionali – The Italian Journal of Regional Science. Her recent research interests include state-owned enterprises, smart cities and the economics of science. She has collaborated with several research institutions, including CERN and the Italian Space Agency, to evaluate the impact of investment in science, the space economy and research infrastructures. She organized the 4th European Conference of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis in 2023.
Contact the Editors
If you would like more information about this series, or are interested in writing an Element, please contact Chiara Del Bo chiara.delbo@unimi.it
Listen to the fascinating and insightful podcast discussion about the Cambridge Element Behavioral Science and Public Policy featuring Cass Sunstein and Tony C. Hockley here.
