附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover -- Table of Contents -- 1 Society, State, and Public Finance: Setting the Analytical Stage -- 2 Welfare Economics and Public Finance -- 3 Fiscal Constitutionalism -- 4 Growth in the Real Size of Government since 1970 -- 5 Rules, Politics, and the Normative Analysis of Taxation -- 6 Taxation, Production, and Redistribution -- 7 Public Revenue from Land Rent -- 8 Debt, Money, and Public Finance -- 9 Regulation by Taxation -- 10 Taxation, Black Markets, and Other Unintended Consequences -- 11 Public Enterprise: Retrospective Review and Prospective Theory -- 12 Privatization, Nationalization, and Aspects of Transition -- 13 Social Insurance -- 14 Redistribution, Poor Relief, and the Welfare State -- 15 Economic Analysis and Efficiency in Public Expenditure -- 16 Local Public Finance -- 17 Federalism and Subsidiarity in National and International Contexts -- 18 Fiscal Sociology: What For?
摘要:The Handbook of Public Finance provides a definitive source, reference, and text for the field of public finance. In 18 chapters it surveys the state of the art - the tradition and breadth of the field but also its current status and recent developments. The Handbook's intellectual foundation and orientation is truly multidisciplinary. Throughout its examination of the standard material of public finance, it explores the connections between that material and such neighboring fields as political science, sociology, law, and public administration. The editors and contributors to the Handbook are.