1. Information and incentives : the economics of carrots and sticks -- 2. Notes on welfare economics, information, and uncertainty -- 3. The desirability of natural resource depletion / James A. Mirrlees and John A. Kay -- 4. The economic uses of utilitarianism -- 5. Welfare economics and economies of scale -- 6. An exploration in the theory of optimum income taxation -- 7. On producer taxation -- 8. The optimum town -- 9. Population policy and the taxation of family size -- 10. Optimal tax theory : a synthesis -- 11. The theory of optimal taxation -- 12. Migration and optimal income taxes -- 13. Taxing uncertain incomes -- 14. Arguments for public expenditure -- 15. Optimal taxation and government finance.