List of tables ................................................ xiv
List of figures ................................................ xv
Preface ....................................................... xix
Preface to the first edition .................................. xxi
PARTI
Welfare economics ............................................... 1
Introduction to Part I .......................................... 2
1 A quick primer on consumer demand ............................ 3
2 Perfect competition and Pareto optimality ................... 28
3 Forms of the social welfare function ........................ 54
PART II
The theory of public expenditure ............................... 75
Introduction to Part II ........................................ 76
4 External effects and the market mechanism ................... 79
5 The theory of pure public goods ............................. 95
6 Topics in the theory of public goods ....................... 121
PART III
The theory of taxation ........................................ 153
Introduction to Part III ...................................... 154
7 The effects of taxes on savings ............................ 157
8 Taxation and labor supply .................................. 186
9 The effects of taxes on investment behavior ................ 208
10 Taxation and risk taking ................................... 234
11 The theory of tax incidence ................................ 249
12 Tax incidence in dynamic models ............................ 273
13 Some results in commodity taxation ......................... 304
14 Aspects of income taxation ................................. 328
15 Topics in the theory of taxation ........................... 359
16 Tax reform ................................................. 384
PART IV
Applied problems in public economics .......................... 409
Introduction to Part IV ....................................... 410
17 Pricing in the public sector .............................. 411
18 International aspects of taxation ......................... 445
19 Tax incentives and corporate taxation ..................... 464
20 Global public goods ....................................... 480
21 Cost-benefit analysis and randomized evaluation ........... 490
22 Environmental taxation and emission trading schemes ....... 510
PART V
Fiscal federalism ............................................. 523
Introduction to Part V ........................................ 524
23 Issues in fiscal federalism ............................... 525
24 Grants and taxes in federal countries ..................... 545
Problems ...................................................... 569
Bibliography .................................................. 582
Author index .................................................. 616
Subject index ................................................. 620
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