- Title Pages
- Preface
- 1 Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks
- 2 Notes on Welfare Economics, Information, and Uncertainty
- 3 The Desirability of Natural Resource Depletion
- 4 The Economic Uses of Utilitarianism
- 5 Welfare Economics and Economies of Scale
- 6 An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation
- 7: On Producer Taxation
- 8 The Optimum Town
- 9 Population Policy and the Taxation of Family Size
- 10 Optimal Tax Theory: A Synthesis
- 11 The Theory of Optimal Taxation
- 12 Migration and Optimal Income Taxes
- 13 Taxing Uncertain Incomes
- 14 Arguments for Public Expenditure
- 15 Optimal Taxation and Government Finance
- 16 The Optimal Structure of Incent ives and Authority within an Organization
- 17 The Theory of Moral Hazard and Unobservable Behaviour: Part I
- 18 The Dynamic Nonsubstitution Theorem
- 19 Agreeable Plans
- 20 Fairly Good Plans
- 21 Optimum Saving with Economies of Scale
- 22 A Pure Theory of Underdeveloped Economies
- 23 Project Appraisal and Planning Twenty Years On
- Index
Arguments for Public Expenditure
Arguments for Public Expenditure
- Chapter:
- (p.345) 14 Arguments for Public Expenditure
- Source:
- Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation
- Author(s):
James A. Mirrlees
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter discusses arguments for public expenditure. It includes discussions on the optimal income tax theory, whether public expenditure is too high or not, and an examination of the UK government as a linear tax system.
Keywords: arguments, public expenditure, income tax, UK government, tax system
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- 1 Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks
- 2 Notes on Welfare Economics, Information, and Uncertainty
- 3 The Desirability of Natural Resource Depletion
- 4 The Economic Uses of Utilitarianism
- 5 Welfare Economics and Economies of Scale
- 6 An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation
- 7: On Producer Taxation
- 8 The Optimum Town
- 9 Population Policy and the Taxation of Family Size
- 10 Optimal Tax Theory: A Synthesis
- 11 The Theory of Optimal Taxation
- 12 Migration and Optimal Income Taxes
- 13 Taxing Uncertain Incomes
- 14 Arguments for Public Expenditure
- 15 Optimal Taxation and Government Finance
- 16 The Optimal Structure of Incent ives and Authority within an Organization
- 17 The Theory of Moral Hazard and Unobservable Behaviour: Part I
- 18 The Dynamic Nonsubstitution Theorem
- 19 Agreeable Plans
- 20 Fairly Good Plans
- 21 Optimum Saving with Economies of Scale
- 22 A Pure Theory of Underdeveloped Economies
- 23 Project Appraisal and Planning Twenty Years On
- Index
