The economics of public spending / edited by David Miles, Gareth Myles, Ian Preston

Includes bibliographical references and index

Public and private pension spending: principles, practice and the need for reform / James Banks and Carl Emmerson -- Expenditure on healthcare in the UK: a review of the issues / Carol Propper -- Education and public policy / Jayasri Dutta, James Sefton and Martin Weale -- Unemployment and workers' compensation programmes: rationale, design, labour supply and income support / Bruce D. Meyer -- What we spend and what we get: public and private provision of crime prevention and criminal justice / Ann Dryden Witte and Robert Witt -- On sharing NATO defence burdens in the 1990s and beyond / Todd Sandler and James C. Murdoch -- Public and private spending for environmental protection: a cross-country policy analysis / David Pearce and Charles Palmer -- Government failure in US urban transportation / Clifford Winston -- Public financing of the arts in England / Alan Peacock -- Government spending on research and development in the UK / Paul Stoneman