Detailed Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1. Market possibilities and prescriptions
2. Evaluating public finance policy: consumer surplus, welfare criteria and market failure
3. Public goods
4. Collective decision-making: searching for the "public interest"
5. Rent-seeking, public provision and the "return to the market"
6. Evaluation of public expenditure: cost-benefit analysis
7. Tax theory: the basic concepts
8. Tax evasion and the black economy
9. Income (re) distribution
10. Central government
11. Public choice aspects of macroeconomic policies
12. Local government
13. International issues in public finance
14. Public sector failure and public expenditure growth
15. "Normative" optimal taxation
16. "Positive" optimal taxation
Author Index
Subject Index
