19th Century · English
Public Finance
Public Finance, by Charles Francis Bastable (1855–1945), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.
Chapters
- 01Preface to the Third Editionprose
- 02From Preface to the Second Editionprose
- 03From Preface to the First Editionprose
- 04Chapter Iprose
- 05Chapter IIprose
- 06Book I: Public Expenditure, Chapter I: state economy. general considerationsprose
- 07Chapter II: the cost of defenceprose
- 08Chapter III: justice and securityprose
- 09Chapter IV: administrative supervision. poor-reliefprose
- 10Chapter V: education. religionprose
- 11Chapter VI: expenditure on industry and commerce. constitutional and diplomatic expenditureprose
- 12Chapter VII: central and local expenditureprose
- 13Chapter VIII: some general questions of expenditureprose
- 14Appendix.: On the Classification and Guiding Maxims of Public Expenditure.prose
- 15Book II: Public Revenue the Economic or Quasi-private Receipts, Chapter I: the forms and classification of public revenuprose
- 16Chapter II: the state domain. lands and forestsprose
- 17Chapter III: the industrial domainprose
- 18Chapter IV: the state as capitalist. administrative revenueprose
- 19Chapter V: state property.—general considerations on quasi-private revenueprose
- 20Book III: Public Revenue (Continued) the Principzes of Taxation, Chapter I: definition and classification of taxationprose
- 21Chapter II: the general features of taxationprose
- 22Chapter III: the distribution of taxationprose
- 23Chapter IV: the tax system: its formsprose
- 24Chapter V: the shifting and incidence of taxationprose
- 25Chapter VI: the principles of local taxationprose
- 26Chapter VII: the canons of taxationprose
- 27Book IV: public revenue—Concluded the several kinds of taxes, Chapter I: taxes on landprose
- 28Chapter II: taxes on capital and businessprose
- 29Chapter III: personal and wages taxesprose
- 30Chapter IV: taxes on property and incomeprose
- 31Chapter V: taxes on consumption: their classification: direct consumption taxesprose
- 32Chapter VI: internal taxes on commoditiesprose
- 33Chapter VII: customs dutiesprose
- 34Chapter VIII: taxes on communications and actsprose
- 35Chapter IX: taxes on successionsprose
- 36Book V: the relation of expenditure and receipts, Chapter I: introductory—state treasuresprose
- 37Chapter II: public indebtedness, its modern developmentprose
- 38Chapter III: the history of the english debtprose
- 39Chapter IV: history of the french debt, indebtedness in other countriesprose
- 40Chapter V: the theory of public credit and public debtsprose
- 41Chapter VI: the forms of public debtsprose
- 42Chapter VII: the redemption and conversion of debtprose
- 43Chapter VIII: local indebtednessprose
- 44Book VI: Financial Administration and Control, Chapter I: introductory—historical developmentprose
- 45Chapter II: the budget—its preparation—the collection of revenueprose
- 46Chapter III: the vote of the budget—control and auditprose
- 47Chapter IV: administration and control in local financeprose
- 48Y, Zprose