Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Brief Table of Contents -- 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 Expenditure: 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 -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

Rosen and Gayer's Public Finance provides the economic tools necessary to analyze government expenditure and tax policies and, along the way, takes students to the frontiers of current research and policy.

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