Advanced Introduction to Public Finance by Vito Tanzi published by Edward Elgar (2020)
“The Advanced Introduction to Public Finance oers a fresh look at the eld of public nance and explains how changes in both the market and the government have made public nance a more challenging, interesting and at times frustrating branch of economics. It provides a cosmopolitan perspective and details the part that historical developments have played in shaping modern views. e author explores the real life, practical nature of public nance and deemphasizes the role of arm-chair theorizing by focusing on real issues that are seen from a community rather than an individualistic perspective…”
Perfect markets, perfect democracies and pandemics by Vito Tanzi published by Iberoamerican Association of Local Finance (2020).
“The premature disappearance, due to the pandemics, of Luiz Villela, who, years ago, I had had the pleasure of knowing and with whom I coedited a book –‘Taxation and Latin American Integration’, edited by Vito Tanzi, Alberto Barreix and Luiz Villela, (Harvard University: 2008)—and shared many pleasant conversations, at the IDB, has given me the incentive to think, more as a dilettante philosopher than as a technical economist, about the role that efficient, or perfect, markets and good democratic governments are expected to play in today’s economies and societies. There are some, largely theoretical, roles that economists and political scientists admire and prescribe, and that, with some exceptions, they generally welcome and promote for countries. When economies and governments diverge from these roles, they are criticized…”
The Economics of Government Complexity and the Practice of Public Finance Vito Tanzi published by Oxford (2020).
Public finance is an important branch of economics. Over the years it has become more important, more controversial, and more complex. Much of the academic writing on it is highly theoretical, and it is often done by economists who have had little real world experience. Vito Tanzi has been continually engaged in this field for almost six decades, as a professor of public finance, a practitioner of it in many countries, and as a researcher, and has witnessed first-hand the growing gap between theoretical work and the real life practice of public finance. Public finance has come to be increasingly influenced by the pursuit of multiple government goals and by the growing complexity that now characterizes fiscal policy and government programs in many countries.
