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SUPPLY AND DEMAND OF URBAN PUBLIC SERVICES

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Date Issued:
1979
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This thesis is an application of the current economic theory of Julius Margolis and Walter Hirsch on the supply and demand for public goods and services. It is shown that the demand for public services has a negative slope and that conscious cutbacks in services result in an upward shift and movement to the left along a new supply curve, thereby increasing the unit cost of the service or good. Next, it is argued that forecasting municipal expenditures based on a small sample can yield meaningful results if care is exercised in adjusting and compiling the data base. It is concluded that there exists a significant level of explanatory power to the small body of current economic literature within this field.
Title: SUPPLY AND DEMAND OF URBAN PUBLIC SERVICES.
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Name(s): LESKO, ROBERT DONALD
Florida Atlantic University, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1979
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 79 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis is an application of the current economic theory of Julius Margolis and Walter Hirsch on the supply and demand for public goods and services. It is shown that the demand for public services has a negative slope and that conscious cutbacks in services result in an upward shift and movement to the left along a new supply curve, thereby increasing the unit cost of the service or good. Next, it is argued that forecasting municipal expenditures based on a small sample can yield meaningful results if care is exercised in adjusting and compiling the data base. It is concluded that there exists a significant level of explanatory power to the small body of current economic literature within this field.
Identifier: 13961 (digitool), FADT13961 (IID), fau:10784 (fedora)
Note(s): Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979.
Subject(s): Municipal services--Mathematical models
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