Preface
Part 1. Introduction
1. The public sector in a mixed economy
2. The public sector in the united states
Part 2. Fundamentals of welfare economics
3. Market efficiency
4. Market failure
5. Efficiency and equity
Part 3. Public expenditure theory
6. Public goods and publicity provided private goods
7. Public choice
8. Public production and bureaucracy
9. Externalities and the environent
Part 4. Expenditure programs
10. The analysis of expenditure policy
11. Cost-Benefit Analysis
12. Health Care
13. Defense and Technology
14. Social Insurance
15. Welfare programs and the redistribution of income
16. Education
Part 5. Taxation: Theory
17. Introduction to taxation
18. Tax incidence
19. Taxation and economic efficiency
20. Optimal Taxation
21. Taxation of capital
Part 6. Taxation in the united states
22. The personal income tax
23. The corporation income tax
24. A student`s guide to tax avoidance
25. Reform of the tax system
Part 7. Further issues
26. Fiscal Federalism
27. States and local taxes and expenditures
28. Deficit finance
