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Private wants and public needs : issues surrounding the size and scope of Government expenditure
- 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 [1965]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Phelps, Edmund S.
- Description
- xiii, 178 pages; 21 cm.
- Series Statement
- Problems of the modern economy
- Uniform Title
- Problems of the modern economy.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 177-178.
- Contents
- pt. 1. Private vs. public spending: Standards and values in a rich society / Alvin H. Hansen -- 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 Jouvenal -- Why the government budget is too small in a democracy / Anthony Downs -- pt. 2. What role for government expenditure?: The economic functions of the state in English classical political economy / Lionel Robbins -- The role of government in a free society / Milton Friedman -- Government and the sovereign consumer / Francis M. Bator -- Prices vs. taxes: a classification of U.S. public expenditures / O.H. Brownlee -- Economic problems in urban renewal / Otto A. Davis and Andrew B. Whinston -- Reflections on public expenditure theory / Walter W. Heller -- The tenable range of functions of local government / George J. Stigler.
- LCCN
- 65012517
- OCLC
- ocm00252781
- 252781
- SCSB-2087743
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library