Introdution: Public finance in its economic and political setting -- Fiscal administration -- Public expenditures: Trends and their significance -- Expenditure and economic activity -- Government spending to promote employment -- Planning public expenditure programs to promote employment -- Public debt: Its nature and its management -- Public debt and the money supply -- The burden of debta -- Public revenues: General considerations -- Commercial revenues: Government business enterppises -- Taxes: Allocation of tax burdens -- Tax incidence and other effects -- Tax incidence and other effects -- Property taxation -- Personal income taxation -- The nature of net income for tax purposes -- Taxation of personal income from business corporations -- Counter-cycle adaptation of the income tax -- Taxes on sales -- Death and gift taxesBusiness taxes -- Taxes on employment and miscellaneous taxes -- State and local fiscal policy and problems -- Some current issues in public finance -- Some current issues in public finance