Public finance : a normative approach / by Subrata Ganguly

Includes bibliography and index.

Normative approach to public finance The theory of optimum budget Principles of taxation and government expenditure The pure theory of public expenditure Excess burden of taxes Taxation, Government expenditure and work efforts Taxation, Government expenditure and savings Taxation, Government expenditure investment and risk bearing On the incidence of budget policy A case for expenditure tax Taxation of capital gains Taxation of property Commodity taxes: output and price effects Alternative fiscal policies for full employment Compensatory fiscal policy Anti-inflationary fiscal policy Ends and means of fiscal policy Fiscal policy in the context of growth The burden of public debt The management of public debt Fiscal policy in underdeveloped countries Federal finance