Public Sector Economics

Since it was first published Public Sector Economics has become the most widely adopted undergraduate textbook in its field. Major revisions have been made to this fourth edition while preserving the central objective of the book, which is to explain the relevant principles and the relationships between public expenditure, taxation and the behaviour of economic agents such as individuals, households and firms.

C.V. Brown is Professor of Economics at the University of Stirling. He is author of The Nigerian Banking System (1966), Taxation and the Incentive to Work (2nd ed 19830 and Unemployment and Inflation (1984), and editor of Economic Principles Appied (1970) and Taxation and Labour Supply (1981).

P. M. Jackson is Professor of Economics and Director of the Public Sector Economics Research Centre at the University of Leicester. He is author of The Political Economy of Bureaucracy (1982) and Implementing Governemnt Policy Initiatives: The Thatcher Administration 1979-1983 (1981) and with S. T. Cook, Current Issues in Fiscal Policy. He edits the annual Public Domain which is published by the Public Finance Foundation.

Introduction to the Scope of Public Sector Economics
The Economic Rationale of the Modern State
The Economic Analysis of Public Goods
Collective Choice
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Public Expenditure Growth
Public Expenditure and Taxation in the UK
Budgets, Bureaucrats and Efficiency
Project Appraisal
Fiscal Decentralization
Taxation: An Introduction
Partial Equilibrium Analysis of Taxation I: Taxes on Single Industries
Partial Equilibrium Analysis of Taxation II: Modelling the Effects of Tax Policy
General Equilibrium Analysis of Taxation
Optimal Income Taxation
Distribution of Income in the UK
Income Taxation
Income Taxation and the Work/Leisure Choice
Measures to Reduce Poverty
Taxation and the Consumption/Savings Choice
Taxation of Goods and Services
Taxation of Corporations
Taxation of Wealth
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