TY - GEN AU - Stiglitz, Joseph E. AU - Stiglitz, Joseph E. TI - Economics of the public sector SN - 0393966518 PY - 2000/// CY - New York, NY PB - W. W. Norton KW - Finance, Public KW - United States KW - Fiscal policy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1: Introduction -- The public sector in a mixed economy -- The public sector in the United States -- Part 2: Fundamentals of welfare economics -- Market efficiency -- Market failure -- Efficiency and equity -- Part 3: Public expenditure theory -- Public goods and publicly provided private goods -- Public choice -- Public production and bureaucracy -- Externalities and the environment -- Part 4: Expenditure programs -- The analysis of expenditure policy -- Cost-benefit analysis -- Health care -- Defense and technology -- Social insurance -- Welfare programs and the redistribution of income -- Education -- Part 5: Taxation: theory -- Introduction to taxation -- Tax incidence -- Taxation and economic efficiency -- Optimal taxation -- Taxation of capital -- The personal income tax -- The corporation income tax -- Reform of the tax system -- Part 7: Further issues -- Fiscal federalism -- State and local taxes and expenditures -- Deficit finance ER -