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Normative and positive theories of public finance: contrasting Musgrave and Buchanan

Maxime Desmarais-TremblayCentre Walras-Pareto, Université de Lausanne, Geopolis, 1015Lausanne, Switzerland;Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne, Universitée Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, MSE 112 blvd. de l'Hôpital, 75647Paris Cedex 13, FranceCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 273-289 | Received 12 Mar 2013, Accepted 23 Oct 2013, Published online: 29 Jul 2014

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Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay, Marianne Johnson & Richard Sturn. (2023) Mapping the history of public economics in the twentieth century: an introduction to the special issue. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 0:0, pages 1-24.
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Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay. (2021) Walras, Musgrave et l’hétérogénéité entre les biens publics et les biens privésWalras, Musgrave, and the Heterogeneity Between Public and Private Goods. OEconomia:11-2, pages 315-346.
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Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay. 2021. Welfare Theory, Public Action, and Ethical Values. Welfare Theory, Public Action, and Ethical Values 232 255 .
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Peter J. Boettke & Alain Marciano. (2015) The Distance between Buchanan's 'An Economic Theory of Clubs' and Tiebout's 'A Pure Theory of Local Public Expenditures'. New Insights Based on an Unpublished Manuscript. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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