TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson,William Harry
TI  - Financing modern government: the political economy of the public sector 
SN  - 0395143497
AV  - HJ257.2 .A7
U1  - 353.007'2 
PY  - 1973///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - Finance, Public
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The overall structure of this book is set forth part by part. Part one explains the new character and significance of the public sector. Part two moves directly into public sector decision-making on public goods and the problem of the optimal allocation of resources between the two sectors. Part three deals with the expansion of government activity reasons for that growth, the public budget, and collective decision-making. Part four considers financing government by decision-making on and the exercise of the taxing power. Part five stresses urban economic ecology and fiscal problems together with an analysis of property taxation, the mainstay of the local revenue system. Part six discusses financing the public sector by borrowing and the incurrence of debt. Part seven reviews how fiscal policy developed, its theory, goals, and approaches
ER  -