The Public Financiers

1. Introduction
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Section 1. First Forays into Tax Incidence and Public Policy

2. The Early Life of David Ricardo
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3. The Times
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4. The Theory
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5. The Later Life of David Ricardo
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6. The Early Life of Henry George
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7. The Times
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8. The Theory of Progress and Poverty
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9. Legacy and Later Life
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10. John Bates Clark in Defense of the Status Quo
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11. John Bates Clark and His Times
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12. Later Life and Legacy of Henry George
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13. Later Life and Legacy of John Bates Clark
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Section 2. From Burden of Taxation to Optimal Taxation

14. The Early Years of Frank Plumpton Ramsey
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15. The Paper That Spawned the Study of Optimal Taxation
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16. A Short Lifetime of Contributions
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17. The Premature Loss of a Great Mind
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18. A Modern Extension — Vickrey and Mirrlees
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19. The Early Life of William Spencer Vickrey
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20. The Early Life of James Mirrlees
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21. The Great Idea
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22. Legacy and Applications
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23. The Nobel Prize
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24. The Later Years of James Alexander Mirrlees
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25. The Later Years of William Spencer Vickrey
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Section 3. Divergent Arguments for the Public Sector

26. The Early Life of Knut Wicksell
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27. The Early Life of Richard Musgrave
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28. The Early Life of James Buchanan
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29. The Great Idea of Knut Wicksell
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30. The Times and a New Role for Government
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31. The Great Debate Between Musgrave and Buchanan
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32. The Nobel Memorial Prize for James Buchanan
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33. The Legacy of Knut Wicksell
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34. The Later Years of Richard Musgrave
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35. The Legacy and Later Years of James Buchanan
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Section 4. Bringing it all Together — Voting with the Feet and the Henry George Theorem

36. The Early Life of Charles Tiebout
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37. The Early Life of Joseph Stiglitz
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38. The Times of Charles Mills Tiebout
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39. The Great Idea of Charles Mills Tiebout
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40. Applications and Extensions
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41. The Early Death of Charles Tiebout
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42. The Henry George Theorem
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43. The Prize and Legacy of Joseph Stiglitz
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Section 5. What We Have Learned

44. Conclusions
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