Research Catalog

Title

Private wants and public needs : issues surrounding the size and scope of government expenditure / edited with an introduction by Edmund S. Phelps.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton, [1962], ©1962.

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Details

Additional Authors

Phelps, Edmund S.

Description

xiii, 148 pages; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Problems of the modern economy

Uniform Title

Problems of the modern economy.

Subject

Fiscal policy > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-148).

Contents

Standards and values in a rich society / Alvin H. Hansen -- A proposal to reduce federal expenditures / Frazar B. Wilde -- The dependence effect and social balance / John Kenneth Galbraith -- The non sequitur of the "dependence effect" / F.A. Hayek -- Public versus private : could Galbraith be wrong? / Henry C. Wallich -- The effects of taxation on work incentives / George F. Break -- On state expenditure / Bertrand de Jouvenel -- The "isms" and social technique / Robert A. Dahl and Charles E. Lindblom -- The economic functions of the state in English classical political economy / Lionel Robbins -- Government and the sovereign consumer / Francis M. Bator -- Prices vs. taxes : a classification of U.S. public expenditures / O.H. Brownlee -- Reflections on public expenditure theory / Walter W. Heller -- The tenable range of functions of local government / George J. Stigler.

LCCN

62020922

OCLC

ocm01071444

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries