| Description |
xvi, 627 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
McGraw-Hill international editions. Finance series |
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McGraw-Hill international editions. Finance series
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| Contents |
Fiscal functions: an overview -- Public sectoir in the economic accounts -- Fiscal instituions -- Public provision for social goods -- Social goods considered further -- Equity in distribution -- Public choice and fiscal politics -- Public expenditures: structure and growth -- Expenditure evaluation: principles -- Case studies in expenditure policy: (1) public services -- Case studies in expenditure policy: (2) low-income support and social insurance -- Introduction to taxation -- Approaches to tax equity -- Tax and expenditure incidence: an overview -- Principles of tax incidence -- Excess burden and efficient tax design -- Taxation effects on capacity output: a supply-side perspective -- Development and composition of United States tax structure -- Individual income tax: defining taxable income -- Individual income tax: further problems -- Corporation income tax: structure and integration -- Corporation income tax: further issues -- Consumption taxes -- Property and wealth taxes -- Death duties -- Payroll duties -- Principles of multiunit finance -- Principles of federal finance -- The structure of fiscal federalism in the United States -- Principles of stabilization policy -- Further issues in fiscal policy -- Economics of the public debt -- International fiscal coordinations -- Development finance |
| Summary |
Revised textbook on public finance |
| Analysis |
United States Public finance |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1984 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Finance, Public -- United States.
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| Author |
Musgrave, Peggy B.
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| LC no. |
88013317 |
| ISBN |
0070441278 |
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0070441286 (paperback) |
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0071002278 (paperback) |
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