Part 1: Introduction
1. Public Finance and Attitudes toward Government
Appendix: Doing Research in Public Finance
2. Government at a Glance
Part 2: Tools of Public Finance
3. Tools of Positive Analysis
4. Tools of Normative Analysis
Appendix: Consumer Surplus
Part 3: Analysis of Public Expenditure
5. Market Failure and Public Goods
Appendix: Preference Revelation Mechanisms
6. Externalities
7. Public Choice
8. Income Redistribution: Conceptual Issues
9. Expenditure Programs for the Poor
10. Social Insurance I: Social Security and Unemployment Insurance
11. Social Insurance II: Health Care
12. Cost-Benefit Analysis
Appendix: Calculating the Certainty equivalent Value
Part 4: A Framework for Tax Analysis
13. Taxation and Income Distribution
14. Taxation and Efficiency
Appendix A. Formula for Excess Burden
Appendix B. Multiple Taxes and the Theory of the Second Best
15. Efficient and Equitatable Taxation
Part 5: The United States Revenue System
16. The Personal Income Tax
17. Personal Taxation and Behavior
18. The Corporation Tax
19. Deficit Finance
20. Taxes on Consumption and Wealth
Part 6: Multifovernment Public Finance
21. Public Finance in a Federal System
Appendix Some Basic Microeconomics
Glossary
Selected References
References
Author Index
Subject Index