TY  - JOUR
AU  - Stiglitz,Joseph E.
AU  - Boskin,Michael J.
TI  - Some Lessons from the New Public Finance
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 151
PY  - 1976
Y2  - October 1976
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0151
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0151.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Uris Hall, Columbia University
3022 Broadway, Room 814
New York, NY  10027
Tel: 212/854-0671
Fax: 212/662-8474
E-Mail: jes322@columbia.edu

Michael J. Boskin
Hoover Institution
Stanford University
434 Galvez Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6010
Tel: 650/723-6482
Fax: 650/723-6494
E-Mail: boskin@stanford.edu
AB  - In the last few years, there has developed a large literature, sometimes referred to as the new "public finance," providing a quantitative analysis of a number of traditional problems within the field.  This paper is concerned with surveying, or interpreting, what can be learned from this literature; and our belief is that it has taught us a great deal.  We concern ourselves here not so much with the derivation of precise formulae, e.g. for optimal tax rates, but with the more general lessons which have emerged.
ER  -