Part I: Introduction: The Content and Methodology of Public Sector Theory
1. Introduction to Normative Public Sector Theory
2. A General Equilibrium Model for Public Sector Analysis
3. First-Best and Second-Best Analysis and the Political Economy of Public Sector Economics

Part II: The Theory of Public Expenditures and Taxation—First-Best Analysis
4. The Social Welfare Function in Policy Analysis
5. The Problem of Externalities--An Overview
6. Consumption Externalities
7. Production Externalities
8. Global Warming: An Application of Externality Theory
9. The Theory of Decreasing Cost Production
10. The First-Best Theory of Taxation
11. Applying First-Best Principles of Taxation—What to Tax and How

Part III: The Theory of Public Expenditures and Taxation: Second-Best Analysis
12. Introduction to Second-Best Analysis
13. The Second-Best Theory of Taxation in One-Consumer Economies with Linear Production Technology
14. The Second-Best Theory of Taxation with General Production Technologies and Many Consumers
15. Taxation Under Asymmetric Information
16. The Theory and Measurement of Tax Incidence
17. Expenditure Incidence and Economy-Wide Incidence Studies
18. The Second-Best Theory of Public Expenditures: Overview
19. Transfer Payments and Private Information
20. Social Insurance: Medical Care
21. Social Insurance: Social Security
22. Externalities in a Second-Best Environment
23. Decreasing Costs and the Theory of the Second-Best—The Boiteux Problem
24. General Production Rules in a Second-Best Environment
25. Behavioral Public Sector Economics

Part IV: Fiscal Federalism and International Public Finance
26. Optimal Federalism: Sorting the Functions of Government Within the Fiscal Hierarchy
27. Optimal Federalism: The Sorting of People within the Fiscal Hierarchy
28. The Role of Grants-in-Aid in a Federalist System of Governments
29. International Public Finance