Introduction : public economics -- Household decisions, income, taxation and labour supply -- Taxation, savings and decisions over time -- Taxation and risk-taking -- Taxation and the firm -- Tax incidence -- simple competitive equilibrium model -- Tax incidence : departures from the standard model -- Taxation and debt in a growing economy -- Distributional effect of taxation and public expenditures -- Theories of the state and public economics -- Introduction to part two -- normative analysis -- The structure of indirect taxation -- The structure of income taxation -- A more general treatment of the optimal tax problem -- Public sector pricing and production -- Public goods and publicity provided private goods -- Local public goods -- Public economics : theory and policy.