Market leading Rosen/Wen/Snodden Public Finance in Canada provides a modern treatment of the theory of public finance, and a thorough discussion of empirical issues from a Canadian perspective.  Comprehensive yet flexible coverage includes an integrated introduction to tax and expenditure decisions (financing of expenditures in the chapters on health care, education, employment insurance, and public pensions), and extensive analysis of the federal-provincial dimension of the public sector in Canada.
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PART ONE: Introduction
CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Public Finance in Canada
CHAPTER 2: Fundamentals of Welfare Economics
CHAPTER 3: Cost-Benefit Analysis

PART TWO: A Framework for the Analysis of Public Expenditure
CHAPTER 4: Public Goods
CHAPTER 5: Externalities
CHAPTER 6: Income Redistribution

PART THREE: Political Economy
CHAPTER 7: Public Choice
CHAPTER 8: Fiscal Federalism

PART FOUR: Public Expenditures in Canada
CHAPTER 9: Health Care
CHAPTER 10: Employment Insurance
CHAPTER 11: Public Pensions
CHAPTER 12: Social Welfare Programs
CHAPTER 13: Education

PART FIVE: A Framework for Tax Analysis
CHAPTER 14: Taxation and Income Distribution
CHAPTER 15: Taxation and Efficiency
CHAPTER 16: Efficient and Equitable Taxation

PART SIX: The Canadian Revenue System
CHAPTER 17: The Personal Income Tax
CHAPTER 18: Personal Taxation and Behaviour
CHAPTER 19: Consumption Taxation
CHAPTER 20: Taxes on Wealth and Property
CHAPTER 21: The Corporation Tax