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 Expenditures: 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 Author Index Subject Index

About the Author

Ted Gayer is vice president is director dell' Economic Studies Program is Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow at George Town University.