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Title

Public finance : a contemporary application of theory to policy / David N. Hyman.

Author

Hyman, David N.

Publication

Fort Worth : Dryden Press, c1999.

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Description

xxi, 682 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Dryden Press series in finance

Uniform Title

Dryden Press series in finance

Subject

• Fiscal policy
• Finance, Public
• Finance, Public
• Fiscal policy
• Fiscal Policy

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• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. The Economic Basis for Government Activity -- Ch. 1. Individuals and Government -- Ch. 2. Efficiency, Markets, and Governments -- Ch. 3. Externalities and Government Policy -- Ch. 4. Public Goods -- Ch. 5. Public Choice and the Political Process -- Pt. 2. Government Expenditures and Policy in the United States: Selected Issues -- Ch. 6. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Government Investments -- Ch. 7. Government Subsidies and Income Support for the Poor -- Ch. 8. Social Security and Social Insurance -- Ch. 9. Government and Health Care -- Pt. 3. Financing Government Expenditures -- Ch. 10. Introduction to Government Finance -- Ch. 11. Taxation, Prices, Efficiency, and the Distribution of Income -- Ch. 12. Budget Deficits and Government Debt -- Pt. 4. Taxation: Theory and Structure -- Ch. 13. The Theory of Income Taxation -- Ch. 14. Taxation of Personal Income in the United States -- Ch. 15. Taxation of Corporate Income -- Ch. 16. Taxes on Consumption and Sales -- Ch. 17. Taxes on Wealth, Property, and Estates -- Pt. 5. State and Local Government Finance -- Ch. 18. Fiscal Federalism and State and Local Government Finance.

ISBN

0030213088

LCCN

^^^98071610^

OCLC

40567416

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