Assesses the arguments about the poll tax. It places the specific proposals within the framework of the national and international context of local government finance and attempts to determine what the parameters are to reform.

Public Sector Economics provides a comprehensive, wide-ranging treatment of the subject, dealing with theory, policy and practice within the broad context of political economy and gives a more general integration of them than is found in most other texts. It recognises that students invariably study other subjects simultaneously with economics and so attempts to provide more of a multi-disciplinary approach than is usually the case. The book reflects the changing nature of 'public' in recognising that a textbook in this area has to be made less technical and mechanistic and more...