1st Edition
Local Government Finance International Perspectives
Originally published in 1961, this book became widely used as a textbook, as an important source of primary data on British government expenditure statistics and as the point of departure for further empirical and analytical studies of the behaviour of governments. The book was recognised as one of the formative influences in the development of a positive theory of government expenditure which sought to explain the size and structure of the system of public finance rather than justify it.
Introduction and Summary. 1. Scope and Method 2. Determinants of Government Expenditure 3. The Growth in Government Expenditure and National Income 4. War-Related and Defence Expenditures 5. Government Expenditure by Economic and Functional Categories 6. Central and Local Government Expenditures 7. The Nationalized Industries 8. Possible Future Trends in Government Expenditure Appendices.
Biography
Alan Peacock and Jack Wiseman
Original review of The Growth of Public Expenditure in the United Kingdom:
‘It can safely be said that the statistical work is of the very highest standard.’ A. R. Prest, Journal of Political Economy, Vol 70, No. 5, (1962).
