TY - BOOK AU - Miles,David AU - Myles,Gareth D AU - Preston,Ian ED - Oxford University Press. TI - The economics of public spending SN - 019926032X AV - HJ7764 .E234 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Expenditures, Public KW - Great Britain KW - Appropriations and expenditures N1 - 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 ER -