The pure theory of public expenditure

PA Samuelson - The review of economics and statistics, 1954 - JSTOR
PA Samuelson
The review of economics and statistics, 1954JSTOR
Paul A. Samuelson i. Assumptions. Except for Sax, Wicksell, Lindahl, Musgrave, and Bowen,
economists have rather neglected the theory of optimal public expenditure, spending most of
their energy on the theory of taxation. Therefore, I explicitly assume two categories of goods:
ordi-nary private consumption goods (X1,***, Xn) which can be parcelled out among
different individuals (I, 2,***, i,***, s) according to the
Paul A. Samuelson i. Assumptions. Except for Sax, Wicksell, Lindahl, Musgrave, and Bowen, economists have rather neglected the theory of optimal public expenditure, spending most of their energy on the theory of taxation. Therefore, I explicitly assume two categories of goods: ordi-nary private consumption goods (X1,***, Xn) which can be parcelled out among different individuals (I, 2,***, i,***, s) according to the
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