Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A quick primer on consumer demand -- Perfect competition and Pareto optimality -- Forms of the social welfare function -- External effects and the market mechanism -- The theory of pure public goods -- Topics in the theory of public goods -- The effects of taxes on savings -- Taxation and labor supply -- The effects of taxes on investment behavior -- Taxation and risk taking -- The theory of tax incidence -- Tax incidence in dynamic models -- Some results in commodity taxation -- Aspects of income taxation -- Topics in the theory of taxation -- Tax reform -- Pricing in the public sector -- International aspects of taxation -- Tax incentives and corporate taxation -- Global public goods -- Cost-benefit analysis and randomized evaluation -- Environmental taxation and emission trading sachemes -- Issues in fiscal federalism -- Grants and taxes in federal countries.