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Books and Monographs

• Redistribution and the Welfare System, American Enterprise Institute, 1975.

•  Public Finance and the Price System (with Jacquelene M. Browning), Macmillan, 1979.  Third edition, 1987, Fourth Edition, 1994.

• The Distribution of the Tax Burden (with William R. Johnson), American Enterprise Institute, 1979.

• Microeconomic Theory and Applications and accompanying Instructor's Manual (with Jacquelene M. Browning), Little, Brown, 1983.  Second edition, 1986.  Third edition, 1989.  Fourth edition, 1992.  Fifth edition, 1996 (with Mark Zupan).  Sixth edition, 1999. Seventh edition, 2002 (Wiley). Eighth edition, 2004.  Ninth edition, 2006

Articles and Shorter Papers

•  "Incentive and Disincentive Experimentation for Income Maintenance Policy Purposes:  Note," The American Economic Review (September, 1971).

• "A Note on Cyclical Majorities," Public Choice (Spring, 1972).

• "Alternative Programs for Income Redistribution:  The NIT and the NWT," The American Economic Review (March, 1973).  Reprinted in Robert H. Haveman et al. (Eds.), Benefit-Cost and Policy Analysis:  1973, Aldine Publishing Company, 1974; and (translated) in Hacienda Publica Espanola, No. 47 (1977).

• "Social Insurance and Intergenerational Transfers," The Journal of Law and Economics (October, 1973).  Reprinted (translated) in Hacienda Publica Espanola, No. 70 (1981).

• "A Note on Short-Run and Long-Run Competitive Equilibria," Atlantic Economic Journal (April, 1974).

• "On the Welfare Cost of Transfers," Kyklos, Fasc. 2 (1974).  Reprinted in J. Buchanan, R. Tollison, and G. Tullock, (Eds.), Towards a Theory of the Rent-Seeking Society, Texas A&M University Press, 1980; and in G. Tullock, (Ed.), The Economics of Wealth and Poverty, Newton University Press, 1986.

• "A Theory of Black Markets under Price Control:  Competition and Monopoly" (with W. P. Culbertson, Jr.), Economic Inquiry (June, 1974).

• "The Diagrammatic Analysis of Multiple Consumption Externalities," The American Economic Review (September, 1974).

• "Collective Choice and General Fund Financing," Journal of Political Economy (April, 1975).

• "Why the Social Insurance Budget is Too Large in a Democracy," Economic Inquiry (September, 1975).  Reprinted (translated) in Hacienda Publica Espanola, No. 70 (1981). Reprinted in The Economics of Budget Deficits (2.003).

• "The Externality Argument for In-Kind Transfers:  Some Critical Remarks," Kyklos, Fasc. 3 (1975).  Reprinted (translated) in Hacienda Publica Espanola, No. 47 (1977).

•  "Labor Supply Distortions of Social Security," Southern Economic Journal (October, 1975).  Reprinted (translated) in Hacienda Publica Espanola, No. 70 (1981).

• "Tax Reductions Versus Transfers in a Public Choice Model," Public Finance Quarterly (April, 1976).

• "A Note on Distributional Externalities and In-Kind Transfers," Public Finance Quarterly (April, 1976).

• "Welfare Analytics in General Equilibrium Theory:  An Improved Geometry" (with Jacquelene M. Browning), Canadian Journal of Economics (May, 1976).

• "The Marginal Cost Public Funds," Journal of Political Economy (April, 1976).  Reprinted by U.S. Government.  Reprinted in Measuring Welfare Changes, John Creedy, (Ed.). Reprinted in Cost-Beneficial Analysis (2003).

• "How Much More Equality Can We Afford?," The Public Interest (Spring, 1976).  Reprinted by U.S. Information Agency; and in K. Elzinga, (Ed.), Economics:  A Reader, 1978; and in R. Puth, (Ed.), Current Issues in the American Economy, 1978.

• "The Trend Toward Equality in the Distribution of Net Income," Southern Economic Journal (July, 1976).

• "The Excess Burden of Excise Versus Income Taxes:  A Simplified Comparison" (with Jacquelene M. Browning), Public Finance/Finances Publiques, No. 3 (1975).

• "The Externality Argument for In-Kind Transfers:  Still Unsupported," Kyklos, Fasc. 2 (1977).

• "Social Insurance:  The Constitutional Perspective," Economic Inquiry (July, 1977).

• "External Diseconomies, Compensation, and the Measure of Damage," Southern Economic Journal (January, 1977).

• "A Hidden Welfare Cost of Taxation," National Tax Journal (March, 1977).

• "Welfare--A Reconstruction," The Humanist (March/April, 1977).

• "Why the Social Insurance Budget is Too Large in a Democracy:  A Reply," Economic Inquiry (November, 1977).

• "On the Appeal of Minimum Wage Laws," Public Choice (Summer, 1978).

• "The Marginal Welfare Cost of Income Redistribution," Southern Economic Journal (July, 1978).

•  "The Burden of Taxation," Journal of Political Economy (August, 1978).  Reprinted in J. Moroney, (Ed.), Income Inequality:  Trends and International Comparisons, D.C. Heath & Company, 1980.

• "Donor Optimization and the Food Stamp Program:  Comment," Public Choice, Vol. 33, No. 3 (1978).

• "The Welfare Cost of Taxation:  A Further View," National Tax Journal (December, 1978).

•  "The Politics of Social Security Reform," in Colin Campbell, (Ed.), Financing Social Security, American Enterprise Institute, 1979.

•  "On the Distribution of Net Income:  Reply," Southern Economic Journal (January, 1979).

•  "Taxes, Transfers, and Income Inequality" (with William R. Johnson), in Gary Walton, (Ed.), Regulatory Change in an Atmosphere of Crisis, Academic Press, 1979.

•  "Taxation and the Cost of National Health Insurance" (with William R. Johnson), in Mark Pauly, (Ed.), National Health Insurance, American Enterprise Institute, 1980.

•  "A Theory of Paternalistic In-Kind Transfers," Economic Inquiry (October, 1981).

•  "Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Income" (with William R. Johnson), Report of the Minimum Wage Study Commission (Vol. 3), U.S. Government Printing Office, June, 1981.

•  "The Zero Sum Book" (part of a symposium on Lester Thurow's The Zero Sum Society), Social Science Quarterly (June, 1982).

•  "Taxes in the United States" (with William R. Johnson), in W. Block and M. Walker, (Eds.), Taxation:  An International Perspective, The Fraser Institute, 1984.

•  "The Distributional and Efficiency Effects of Increasing the Minimum Wage:  A Simulation" (with William R. Johnson), The American Economic Review (March, 1983).

•  "The Trade-Off between Equality and Efficiency" (with William R. Johnson), Journal of Political Economy (April, 1984).

•  "Tax Reform and Deficit Reduction" (with Jacquelene M. Browning), in P. Cagan, (Ed.), Contemporary Economic Problems, American Enterprise Institute, 1985.

•  "A Critical Appraisal of Hausman's Welfare Cost Estimates," Journal of Political Economy (October, 1985).

•  "The Marginal Social Security Tax on Labor," Public Finance Quarterly (July, 1985).

•  "Why Not a True Flat Rate Tax?" (with Jacquelene M. Browning), The Cato Journal (Fall, 1985). Reprinted in vol. edited by E. Brown.

•  "Tax Incidence, Indirect Taxes, and Transfers," National Tax Journal (December, 1985). Reprinted in The Distribution of Tax Burdens (2003).

•  "Taxation, Capital Accumulation, and Equity," in D. Lee, (Ed.), Taxation and the Deficit Economy, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1986.

•  "The Marginal Cost of Raising Tax Revenue," in P. Cagan, (Ed.), Essays in Contemporary Economic Problems, American Enterprise Institute, 1986.

•  "The Cost of Reducing Economic Inequality" (with William R. Johnson), The Cato Journal (Spring/Summer, 1986).

•  "Reply to Professor Due," National Tax Journal (December, 1986).

•  "Pechman's Tax Incidence Study:  A Note on the Data," The American Economic Review (December, 1986).

•  "Income Distribution and Redistribution," in a volume edited by Peter Berger.

•  "Comparing Monopoly and Competition:  The Increasing-Cost Case," Economic Inquiry (July, 1987).

•  "On the Marginal Welfare Cost of Taxation," The American Economic Review (March, 1987)

• "Inequality and Poverty," Southern Economic Journal, April 1980.

• "Elasticities, Tax Rates, and Tax Revenues," National Tax Journal, March 1989. "Valuation of In-Kind Transfers and the Measurement of Poverty," Public Finance Quarterly, Vol. 19 No. 2, April 1991 pp. 123-145.