Public Finance

One of the first textbooks ever written on the subject, and still eminently readable, with clear organization, definitions and explanations. The taxation of income, capital, imports, consumption goods, etc., and the effects on wages, rents, profits, production, and consumption are major topics, along with the government’s budget constraints.
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Public Finance. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged (London: Macmillan, 1903).
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- Author: Charles F. Bastable
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Table of Contents
- PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
- FROM PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- FROM PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- CONTENTS
- General Introduction
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- BOOK I: PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
- CHAPTER I: state economy. general considerations
- CHAPTER II: the cost of defence
- note
- CHAPTER III: justice and security
- CHAPTER IV: administrative supervision. poor-relief
- CHAPTER V: education. religion
- CHAPTER VI: expenditure on industry and commerce. constitutional and diplomatic expenditure
- CHAPTER VII: central and local expenditure
- notes
- CHAPTER VIII: some general questions of expenditure
- APPENDIX.: On the Classification and Guiding Maxims of Public Expenditure.
- BOOK II: PUBLIC REVENUE THE ECONOMIC OR QUASI-PRIVATE RECEIPTS
- CHAPTER I: the forms and classification of public revenue
- NOTE
- CHAPTER II: the state domain. lands and forests
- CHAPTER III: the industrial domain
- CHAPTER IV: the state as capitalist. administrative revenue
- CHAPTER V: state property.—general considerations on quasi-private revenue
- BOOK III: PUBLIC REVENUE (Continued) THE PRINCIPZES OF TAXATION
- CHAPTER I: definition and classification of taxation
- CHAPTER II: the general features of taxation
- CHAPTER III: the distribution of taxation
- CHAPTER IV: the tax system: its forms
- CHAPTER V: the shifting and incidence of taxation1
- CHAPTER VI: the principles of local taxation
- CHAPTER VII: the canons of taxation
- BOOK IV: public revenue—Concluded the several kinds of taxes
- CHAPTER I: taxes on land
- CHAPTER II: taxes on capital and business
- CHAPTER III: personal and wages taxes
- CHAPTER IV: taxes on property and income
- CHAPTER V: taxes on consumption: their classification: direct consumption taxes
- CHAPTER VI: internal taxes on commodities
- CHAPTER VII: customs duties
- CHAPTER VIII: taxes on communications and acts
- CHAPTER IX: taxes on successions1
- BOOK V: the relation of expenditure and receipts
- CHAPTER I: introductory—state treasures
- CHAPTER II: public indebtedness, its modern development
- CHAPTER III: the history of the english debt
- CHAPTER IV: history of the french debt, indebtedness in other countries
- CHAPTER V: the theory of public credit and public debts
- CHAPTER VI: the forms of public debts
- CHAPTER VII: the redemption and conversion of debt
- CHAPTER VIII: local indebtedness
- BOOK VI: FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL
- CHAPTER I: introductory—historical development
- CHAPTER II: the budget—its preparation—the collection of revenue
- CHAPTER III: the vote of the budget—control and audit
- CHAPTER IV: administration and control in local finance
- INDEX
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
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- K
- L
- M
- N
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- Q
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