Public Finance

Part One: Getting Started

1. Introduction

2. Tools of Positive Analysis

3. Tools of Normative Analysis

Part Two: Analysis of Public Expenditure

4. Public Goods

5. Externalities

6. Political Economy

7. Income Redistribution: Conceptual Issues

8. Expenditure Programs for the Poor

9. Social Insurance I: Social Security and Unemployment Insurance

10. Social Insurance II: Health Care

11. Cost Benefit Analysis

Part Three: A Framework for Tax Analysis

12. Taxation and Income Distribution

13. Taxation and Efficiency

14. Efficient and Equitable Taxation

Part Four: The United States Revenue System

15. The Personal Income Tax

16. Personal Taxation and Behavior

17. The Corporation Tax

18. Deficit Finance

19. Taxes on Consumption and Wealth

Part Five: Multigovernment Public Finance

20. Public Finance in Federal System

Appendix: Some Basic Microeconomics

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