Public Expenditure

In all highly industrialized countries public expenditures are a substantial and growing share of total economic activity

One: The Nature of the Public Sector; Two: The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure: Partial Equilibrium; Three: The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure: General Equilibrium; Four: Market Failure, Public Policy, and Public Expenditure; Five: The Politics of Collective Choice; Six: Program Budgeting; Seven: Benefit-Cost Analysis; Eight: Fiscal Federalism; Nine: Determinants and Consequences of Public Expenditures