Public finance in theory and practice

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Main Author: Musgrave, Richard A. (Richard Abel) 1910-2007
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York McGraw-Hill Book Company 1989
Edition:Fifth edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Fiscal functions: an overview
  • Public sectoir in the economic accounts
  • Fiscal instituions
  • Public provision for social goods
  • Social goods considered further
  • Equity in distribution
  • Public choice and fiscal politics
  • Public expenditures: structure and growth
  • Expenditure evaluation: principles
  • Case studies in expenditure policy: (1) public services
  • Case studies in expenditure policy: (2) low-income support and social insurance
  • Introduction to taxation
  • Approaches to tax equity
  • Tax and expenditure incidence: an overview
  • Principles of tax incidence
  • Excess burden and efficient tax design
  • Taxation effects on capacity output: a supply-side perspective
  • Development and composition of United States tax structure
  • Individual income tax: defining taxable income
  • Individual income tax: further problems
  • Corporation income tax: structure and integration
  • Corporation income tax: further issues
  • Consumption taxes
  • Property and wealth taxes
  • Death duties
  • Payroll duties
  • Principles of multiunit finance
  • Principles of federal finance
  • The structure of fiscal federalism in the United States
  • Principles of stabilization policy
  • Further issues in fiscal policy
  • Economics of the public debt
  • International fiscal coordinations
  • Development finance