Includes index.

Contents: The public sector in a mixed economy -- The public sector in the United states -- Market efficiency -- Market failure -- Efficiency and equity -- Public goods and publicly provided private goods -- Public choice -- Public production and bureaucracy -- Externalities and the environment -- The analysis of expenditure policy -- Cost-benefit analysis -- Health care -- Defense and technology -- Social insurance -- Welfare programs and the redistribution of income -- Education -- Introduction to taxation --- Tax incidence -- Taxation and economic efficiency -- Optimal taxation -- Taxation capital -- The personal income tax -- The corporation income tax -- Student's guide to tax avoidance -- Reform of the tax system -- Fiscal federalism -- State and local taxes and expenditures -- Deficit finance --