Table of Contents: Modern public finance

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Herber, Bernard P.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Delhi A.I.T.B.S. Publishers & Distributors (Regd.) 1999
Edition:	5th ed.
Subjects:	ECONOMICS FINANCE, PUBLIC

Table of Contents:

Public goods and public sector decision making Resource scarcity and intersector allocation The concept of public goods: reasons for governmental allocation intervention Public choice in a democracy Fiscal institutions Fiscal principles and concepts Public sector revenues Distributional equity in taxation Tax shifting and incidence Income taxation: the personal income tax Income taxation: the corporation income tax Wealth taxation: Death and gift taxes Wealth Taxation: the property tax Sales taxation: Narrow based and broad based sales taxes Payroll taxes social insurance, and public assistance programs Tax reforms: alternative tax instruments for the American public sector User charges The aggregate public sector and fiscal federalism Fiscal incidence and profile of the aggregate public sector The theory of fiscal federalism The problems of fiscal federalism and their solution Fiscal policy and economic stabilization Aggregate fiscal policy goals Aggregate fiscal policy instruments Aggregate fiscal policy norms Public sector debt