The Grants Economy and Collective Consumption: Proceedings of a Conference held by the International Economic Association at Cambridge, England

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Pathologies of the Public Grants Economy....Pages 3-22
Social Stability and Collective Public Consumption....Pages 23-42
The Public Choice Approach to the Explanation of Collective Consumption....Pages 43-68
Collective Consumption in Socialist Countries: A Theoretical Approach....Pages 69-84
The Optimum Supply of Public Goods in a Mixed Economy....Pages 85-107
The Desirable Scope and Scale of Grants in Kind in Socialist Countries: as illustrated by the case of Hungary....Pages 108-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Course and Causes of Collective Consumption Trends in the West....Pages 135-158
Problems of Developing Collective Consumption in Socialist Countries....Pages 159-187
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Notes on X-Efficiency and Bureaucracy....Pages 191-211
The Financing of Collective Consumption in Yugoslavia....Pages 212-227
The Rise and Fall of Public Expenditure Planning: An essay on the British system of public expenditure planning and control....Pages 228-241
Spending More and Getting Less: Recent Experiences with the Allocation and Control of Public Expenditure in the Netherlands....Pages 242-266
Modelling the US Federal Spending Process: Overview and Implications....Pages 267-309
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Collective Consumption — an Overview of the Issues....Pages 313-333
Back Matter....Pages 334-338