Broad in scope and carefully balanced in emphasis, this book is
a major treatise on the theory and practice of public finance. It
is unique in its presentation of a worldwide perspective and in its
treatment of both the instruments of public finance and the goals,
effects, and criteria of public finance measures. The book is
divided into three parts. Book One defines the field, specifies the
possible meaning of the "effects" of a public finance measure, and
describes the criteria by which these measures are commonly
appraised. Book Two is concerned with micro public finance and
opens with a discussion of the theory of public goods in general.
Each of the major free government services and types of transfer
payments as well as the taxes that government employs are then
examined. This section concludes with a chapter on the relevant
aspects of government borrowing and inflationary finance. Book
Three considers the major goals of public finance policy and
describes how the various instruments described in Book Two can be
used in achieving these goals. Among the topics treated are the use
of appropriate instruments to resolve conflict in goals, conceptual
problems of measuring the public finance sector and its maximum and
minimum economic limits, consensus goals of equity full employment
and Pareto-optimism use of resources, and goals that evoke
conflicts of interest within any community. "A very scholarly book
of genuine value to its field by Shoup, one of the outstanding
authorities in public finance in the world."--"Choice" "Carl S.
Shoup" was McVikar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia
University. At General MacArthur's request he led the team creating
modern Japan's tax system. He was described as "the dean of
contemporary public finance experts." "Steven Medema" is professor
in the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado at
Denver. He is the author of "Economics and the Law" and "Historians
of Economics and Economic Thought" and serves as editor of the
Transaction "Classics in Economics" series.
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