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Tables of Contents for Handbook of Public Economics
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Editors' Introduction
A Brief History of Fiscal Doctrine
Richard A. Musgrave
The Theory of Excess Burden and Optimal Taxation
Alan J. Auerbach
Public Sector Pricing
Dieter Bos
Taxes and Labor Supply
Jerry A. Hausman
The Effects of Taxation on Savings and Risk Taking
Agnar Sandmo
Tax Policy in Open Economies
Avinash Dixit
Housing Subsidies: Effects on Housing Decisions, Efficiency, and Equity
Harvey S. Rosen
The Taxation of Natural Resources
Terry Heaps
John F. Helliwell
Theory of Public Goods
William H. Oakland
Incentives and the Allocation of Public Goods
Jean-Jacques Laffont
The Economics of the Local Public Sector
Daniel Rubinfeld
Markets, Government, and the ``New'' Political Economy
Robert Inman
Income Maintenance and Social Insurance
Anthony B. Atkinson
The Theory of Cost-Benefit Analysis
Jean Dreze
Nicholas Stern
Pareto Efficient and Optimal Taxation and the New Welfare Economics
Joseph Stiglitz
Tax Incidence
Laurence Kotlikoff
Lawrence Summers
Part 1 -- CAPITAL INCOME TAXATION
Taxation, Risk Taking and Household Portfolio Behavior
James M. Poterba
Taxation and Saving
B. Douglas Bernheim
Taxation and Corporate Financial Policy
Alan J. Auerbach
Tax Policy and Business Investment
Kevin A. Hassett
R. Glenn Hubbard
Part 2 -- THEORY OF TAXATION
Taxation and Economic Efficiency
Alan J. Auerbach
James R. Hines Jr
Tax Avoidance, Evasion, and Administration
Joel Slemrod
Shlomo Yitzhaki
Environmental Taxation and Regulation
A. Lans Bovenberg
Lawrence H. Goulder
Part 3 -- THEORY OF GOVERNMENT
Political Economics and Public Finance
Torsten Persson
Guido Tabellini
Economic Analysis and the Law
Louis Kaplow
Steven Shavell
Part 4 -- FISCAL INCIDENCE
Tax Incidence
Don Fullerton
Gilbert E. Metcalf
Generational Policy
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Part 5 -- INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
International Taxation
Roger H. Gordon
James R. Hines Jr
Local Public Goods and Clubs
Suzanne Scotchmer
Part 6 -- PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PROGRAMS
Publicly Provided Education
Eric A. Hanushek
Health Care and the Public Sector
David M. Cutler
Social Security
Martin Feldstein
Jeffrey B. Liebman
Part 7 -- LABOR MARKET EFFECTS
Labor Supply Effects of Social Insurance
Alan B. Krueger
Bruce D. Meyer
Welfare Programs and Labor Supply
Robert A. Moffitt