Part I - Getting Started

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Tools of Positive Analysis
Chapter 3: Tools of Normative Analysis

Part II - Public Expenditure: Public Goods and Externalities

Chapter 4: Public Goods
Chapter 5: Externalities
Chapter 6: Political Economy
Chapter 7: Education
Chapter 8: Cost-Benefit Analysis

Part III - Public Expenditure: Social Insurance and Income Maintenance

Chapter 9: The Health Care Market
Chapter 10: Government and the Market for Health Care
Chapter 11: Social Security
Chapter 12: Income Redistribution - Conceptual Issues
Chapter 13: Expenditure Programs for the Poor

Part IV - A Framework for Tax Analysis

Chapter 14: Taxation and Income Distribution
Chapter 15: Taxation and Efficiency
Chapter 16: Efficient and Equitable Taxation

Part V - The United States Revenue System

Chapter 17: The Personal Income Tax
Chapter 18: Personal Taxation and Behavior
Chapter 19: The Corporation Tax
Chapter 20: Deficit Finance
Chapter 21: Fundamental Tax Reform - Taxes on Consumption and Wealth

Part VI - Multigovernment Public Finance

Chapter 22: Public Finance in a Federal System