Private wants and public needs
Subtitle: issues surrounding the size and scope of government expenditure
By: edited with an introduction by Edmund S. Phelps.
Contributors: Phelps, Edmund S.
Series: Problems of the modern economy
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Fiscal policy -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-148).
Table of contents: title: Standards and values in a rich society / Alvin H. Hansen; title: A proposal to reduce federal expenditures / Frazar B. Wilde; title: The dependence effect and social balance / John Kenneth Galbraith; title: The non sequitur of the "dependence effect" / F.A. Hayek; title: Public versus private : could Galbraith be wrong? / Henry C. Wallich; title: The effects of taxation on work incentives / George F. Break; title: On state expenditure / Bertrand de Jouvenel; title: The "isms" and social technique / Robert A. Dahl and Charles E. Lindblom; title: The economic functions of the state in English classical political economy / Lionel Robbins; title: Government and the sovereign consumer / Francis M. Bator; title: Prices vs. taxes : a classification of U.S. public expenditures / O.H. Brownlee; title: Reflections on public expenditure theory / Walter W. Heller; title: The tenable range of functions of local government / George J. Stigler.