TY - BOOK AU - Stiglitz,Joseph E. AU - Rosengard,Jay K. TI - Economics of the public sector SN - 0393937097 U1 - 336.73 STI PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. KW - Finance, Public KW - United States KW - Fiscal policy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part one: Role and size of the public sector -- Defining public sector responsibilities -- Measuring public sector size -- Part two: Fundamentals of welfare economics -- Market efficiency -- Market failure -- Public goods and publicly provided private goods -- Externalities and the environment -- Efficiency and equity -- Part three: Public expenditure theory -- Public production of goods and services -- Public choice -- Part four: Public expenditure in practice -- Framework for analysis of expenditure policy -- Evaluating public expenditure -- Defense, research, and technology -- Health care -- Education -- Welfare programs and the redistribution of income -- Social insurance -- Part five: Taxation in theory -- Introduction to taxation -- Tax incidence -- Taxation and economic efficiency -- Optimal taxation -- Taxation of capital -- Part six: Taxation in practice -- The personal income tax -- The corporation income tax -- A student\'s guide to tax avoidance -- Reform of the tax system -- Part seven: Further issues -- Intergovernmental fiscal relations -- Subnational taxes and expenditures -- Fiscal deficits and government debt ER -