Part I Getting Started
1 Introduction
2 Tools of Positive Analysis
3 Tools of Normative Analysis Part II Public Expenditure: Public Goods and Externalities
4 Public Goods
5 Externalities
6 Political Economy
7 Education
8 Cost-Benefit Analysis Part III Public Expenditures: Social Insurance and Income Maintenance
9 The Health Care Market
10 Government and the Market for Health Care
11 Social Security
12 Income Redistribution: Conceptual Issues
13 Expenditure Programs for the Poor Part IV Framework for Tax Analysis
14 Taxation and Income Distribution
15 Taxation and Efficiency
16 Efficient and Equitable Taxation Part V The United States Revenue System
17 The Personal Income Tax
18 Personal Taxation and Behavior
19 The Corporation Tax
20 Deficit Finance
21 Fundamental Tax Reform: Taxes on Consumption and Wealth Part VI Multigovernment Public Finance
22 Public Finance in a Federal System
Appendix
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index
