State and Local Public Finance

Ronald C. Fisher is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University, where he specializes in the finance of state and local governments and intergovernmental fiscal relations.

PART I Introduction

1 Why study state and local government finance?

2 Microeconomic analysis: market effiiency and market failure

PART II Public choice and fiscal federalism

3 Demand for state and local government goods and services

4 Public choice without mobility: voting

5 Public choice through mobility

6 Organization of subnational government

PART III Provision of state and local goods and services

7 Supply of state and local goods and services

8 Pricing of government goods: user charges

9 Intergovernmental grants

10 Capital investment, borrowing, and debt

PART IV Revenue for state and local governments

11 Principles of tax analysis

12 The property tax

13 Sales and excise taxes

14 Individual income taxes

15 Business taxes

16 Revenue from government monopoly and regulation

PART V Applications and policy analysis

17 Education

18 Transportation

19 Health and welfare

20 Economic development