Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Ted Gayer is vice president is director dell' Economic Studies Program is Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow at George Town University.