Private wants and public needs :  issues surrounding the size and scope of government expenditure / 
edited with an introduction by Edmund S. Phelps. 
 - xiii, 148 pages ;  21 cm. 
 - Problems of the modern economy .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-148). 
<br/><br/>Standards and values in a rich society / Alvin H. Hansen -- A proposal to reduce federal expenditures / Frazar B. Wilde -- The dependence effect and social balance / John Kenneth Galbraith -- The non sequitur of the "dependence effect" / F.A. Hayek -- Public versus private : could Galbraith be wrong? / Henry C. Wallich -- The effects of taxation on work incentives / George F. Break -- On state expenditure / Bertrand de Jouvenel -- The "isms" and social technique / Robert A. Dahl and Charles E. Lindblom -- The economic functions of the state in English classical political economy / Lionel Robbins -- Government and the sovereign consumer / Francis M. Bator -- Prices vs. taxes : a classification of U.S. public expenditures / O.H. Brownlee -- Reflections on public expenditure theory / Walter W. Heller -- The tenable range of functions of local government / George J. Stigler. 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>62020922  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fiscal policy--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HJ257  / .P45 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>336.39