Abstract
The history of public economics is a challenging subject. There is no simple narrative which can accommodate the joint evolution of economics and theories of the public economy. Taken together, the papers published in this issue provide ample evidence against that idea that progress in the understanding of public economics has been linear — that the application of ever more sophisticated economic theory has been the motor of scientific progress in this domain. While this might seem at first sight a plausible view, it fails to capture important features of the advances, breakthroughs and vicissitudes in the theories and models related to the public sector.
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