Includes bibliographical references and index. Stiglitz, J. E. (2000). Economics of the public sector (3rd ed.). New York, NY: W. W. Norton.

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