1st Edition
The Geography of Public Finance Welfare Under Fiscal Federalism and Local Government Finance
In this authoritative study, originally published in 1980, R. J. Bennett examines who receives what benefit, where and at what cost, from the social services. He adopts an integrated approach to taxes, benefits and intergovernmental grants, drawing empirical examples from a wide range of countries, including the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and Europe.
1.Public Finance Geography Part 1: Geography and Public Economy 2. Public Goods and Public Economy 3. The Geographical Functions of Public Finance 4. Major Issues in Public Finance Geography Part 2: Individual Fiscal Jurisdictions 5. The Geography of Expenditure Need 6. Service Costs 7. Revenue Ability: The Geography of Payment for Public Goods 8. The Revenue Burden: The Geography of Revenue Incidence 9. Benefit Incidence: The Geography of Access to Public Goods 10. The Capital Burden Part 3: Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations 11. Government Structure and Public Finance 12. Intergovernmental Fiscal Co-Ordination 13. Fiscal Co-Ordination In Practice 14. Final Fiscal Incidence 15. Fiscal Politics 16. The Geography of Public Finance
Biography
R. J. Bennett
Original Reviews of The Geography of Public Finance:
‘Bennett provides a scholarly and exhaustive treatment of a very important and much neglected aspect of public finance.’ The Times Higher Education Supplement
‘The strength of this book is its detail and treatment of primarily economic issues of public finance in the geographical context. For those interested in a source book or upper-level text, on the geography of public finance, one can hardly go further.’ Progress in Human Geography
‘Bennett brilliantly assimilates public finance literature from economics into the spatial literature of geography and regional science…In sum, the book presents a splendid development of an exciting literature that has significant ‘feet-squarely-on-the-ground’ applications. A class structured upon Bennett’s book could be highly successful…’ The Professional Geographer.
