The Fallacies of Public Finance

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For more on Austrian Public Finance, see also:

The Rothbardian Theory of Taxes


Further reading:

The Justification for Taxation in the Public Finance Literature: An Unorthodox View by Walter Block

“Collective Goods” and “External Benefits”: Two Arguments for Government Activity by Murray N. Rothbard (Chapter 12, Appendix B in Man, Economy, and State)

Public Goods and Externalities: The Case of Roads by Walter Block (Chapter 3 in The Privatization of Roads and Highways)

Coase and Demsetz on Private Property Rights by Walter Block

National Defense and the Theory of Externalities, Public Goods, and Clubs by Walter Block (Chapter 9 in The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production)

A Theory of the Theory of Public Goods by Randall G. Holcombe


Pareto Optimality, External Benefits and Public Goods: A Subjectivist Approach by Barry P. Brownstein

The Limits of Government: An Essay on the Public Goods Argument by David Schmidtz

Fallacies of the Public Goods Theory and the Production of Security by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Chapter 10 in A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism)

The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State by Bruce L. Benson

Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution by Murray N. Rothbard (Chapter 20 in Economic Controversies)

The Polluter Pays Principle: A Proper Guide for Environmental Policy by Roy Cordato


Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics by Murray N. Rothbard (Chapter 17 in Economic Controversies)

"Social Utility" and Government Transfers of Wealth: An Austrian Perspective by David Osterfeld