1st Edition

The Growth of Public Expenditure in the United Kingdom

By Alan Peacock, Jack Wiseman Copyright 1967
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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).