Part 1. Introduction
1 The Public Sector in a Mixed Economy
2 The Public Sector in the United States

Part 2 Fundamentals of Welfare Economics
3 Market Efficiency
4 Market Failure
5 Efficiency and Equity

Part 3 Public Expenditure Theory
6 Public Goods and Publicly Provided Private Goods
7 Public Choice
8 Public Production and Bureaucracy
9 Externalities and the Environment

Part 4 Expenditure Programs
10 The Analysis of Expenditure Policy
11 Cost-Benefit Analysis
12 Health Care
13 Defense and Technology
14 Social Insurance
15 Welfare Programs and the Redistribution of Income
16 Education

Part 5 Taxation: Theory
17 Introduction to Taxation
18 Tax Incidence
19 Taxation and Economic Efficiency
20 Optimal Taxation

Part 6 Taxation in the United States
22 The Personal Income Tax
23 The Corporation Income Tax
24 A Student's Guide to Tax Avoidance
25 Reform of the Tax System

Part 7 Further Issues
26 Fiscal Federalism
27 State and Local Taxes and Expenditures
28 Deficit Finance