Public Finance

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1. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
2. FROM PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
3. FROM PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
4. CHAPTER I
5. CHAPTER II
6. CHAPTER I: state economy. general considerations
7. CHAPTER II: the cost of defence
8. note
9. CHAPTER III: justice and security
10. CHAPTER IV: administrative supervision. poor-relief
11. CHAPTER V: education. religion
12. CHAPTER VI: expenditure on industry and commerce. constitutional and diplomatic expenditure
13. CHAPTER VII: central and local expenditure
14. notes
15. CHAPTER VIII: some general questions of expenditure
16. APPENDIX.: On the Classification and Guiding Maxims of Public Expenditure.
17. CHAPTER I: the forms and classification of public revenue
18. NOTE
19. CHAPTER II: the state domain. lands and forests
20. CHAPTER III: the industrial domain
21. CHAPTER IV: the state as capitalist. administrative revenue
22. CHAPTER V: state property.—general considerations on quasi-private revenue
23. CHAPTER I: definition and classification of taxation
24. CHAPTER II: the general features of taxation
25. CHAPTER III: the distribution of taxation
26. CHAPTER IV: the tax system: its forms
27. CHAPTER V: the shifting and incidence of taxation1
28. CHAPTER VI: the principles of local taxation
29. CHAPTER VII: the canons of taxation
30. CHAPTER I: taxes on land
31. CHAPTER II: taxes on capital and business
32. CHAPTER III: personal and wages taxes
33. CHAPTER IV: taxes on property and income
34. CHAPTER V: taxes on consumption: their classification: direct consumption taxes
35. CHAPTER VI: internal taxes on commodities
36. CHAPTER VII: customs duties
37. CHAPTER VIII: taxes on communications and acts
38. CHAPTER IX: taxes on successions1
39. CHAPTER I: introductory—state treasures
40. CHAPTER II: public indebtedness, its modern development
41. CHAPTER III: the history of the english debt
42. CHAPTER IV: history of the french debt, indebtedness in other countries
43. CHAPTER V: the theory of public credit and public debts
44. CHAPTER VI: the forms of public debts
45. CHAPTER VII: the redemption and conversion of debt
46. CHAPTER VIII: local indebtedness
47. CHAPTER I: introductory—historical development
48. CHAPTER II: the budget—its preparation—the collection of revenue
49. CHAPTER III: the vote of the budget—control and audit
50. CHAPTER IV: administration and control in local finance
51. A
52. B
53. C
54. D
55. E
56. F
57. G
58. H
59. I
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