Introduction
Preface
Introductory Note to the 1980 Edition
Part 1 The Analysis of Policy
Lecture 1 Introduction: Public Economics
Lecture 2 Household Decisions, Income Taxation, and Labour Supply
Note on the Expenditure Function
Lecture 3 Taxation, Savings, and Decisions over Time
Lecture 4 Taxation and Risk-Taking
Note on Risk Aversion
Lecture 5 Taxation and the Firm
Lecture 6 Tax Incidence: Simple Competitive Equilibrium Model
Note on the Cost Function
Lecture 7 Tax Incidence: Departures from the Standard Model
Lecture 8 Taxation and Debt in a Growing Economy
Lecture 9 Distributional Effect of Taxation and Public Expenditure
Lecture 10 Theories of the State and Public Economics
Part 2 The Design of Policy
Lecture 11 Introduction to Part Two: Normative Analysis
Note on the Measurement of Income Inequality
Lecture 12 The Structure of Indirect Taxation
Lecture 13 The Structure of Income Taxation
Lecture 14 A More General Treatment of the Optimal Tax Problem
Lecture 15 Public Sector Pricing and Production
Lecture 16 Public Goods and Publicly Provided Private Goods
Lecture 17 Local Public Goods
Lecture 18 Public Economics: Theory and Policy
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index