Public expenditure in Italian public finance theory

Domenicantonio Fausto

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2010, vol. 17, issue 4, 909-931

Abstract: This paper examines public expenditure in the Italian public finance literature between the end of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. Three aspects are considered: the factors that determine the growth of public expenditure; integration of the tax and expenditure sides in the theory of shifting and incidence of taxation; and the general productivity of public expenditure. The main conclusion of the paper is that Italian economists have examined the problem of public finance in a general context, taking into consideration both taxes and public expenditure at the same time.

Keywords: History of public finance; public expenditure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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