Part I Public Economics and the Public Sector; Chapter 1 An Introduction to Public Economics; Chapter 2 Equilibrium and Efficiency; Chapter 3 Behavioral Economics; Part II Government; Chapter 4 Public Sector Statistics; Chapter 5 Theories of the Public Sector; Part III Departures from Efficiency; Chapter 6 Public Goods; Chapter 7 Club Goods and Local Public Goods; Chapter 8 Externalities; Chapter 9 Imperfect Competition; Chapter 10 Asymmetic Information; Part IV Political Economy; Chapter 11 Voting; Chapter 12 Rent-Seeking; Part V Equity and Distribution Chapter 13 Optimality and ComparabilityChpater 14 Inequality and Poverty; Part VI Taxation; Chapter 15 Commodity Taxation; Chapter 16 Income Taxation; Chapter 17 Tax Evasion ; Chapter 18 The Limits to Redistribution; Part VII Multiple Jurisdictions ; Chapter 19 Fiscal Federalism; Chapter 20 Fiscal Competition; Chapter 21 Issues in International Taxation; Part VIII Issues of Time; Chapter 22 Intertemporal Efficiency; Chapter 23 Social Security ; Chapter 24 Economic Growth; Part IX Applications; Chapter 25 Cost-Benefit Analysis; Chapter 26 Economics of Climate Policy.