The objective of this course is to understand various components of Public Finance and discuss in detail Indian Federal Finance.
Public Finance: Meaning and Scope, Distinction between Private and Public finance, Principles of Maximum Social Advantage: Dalton’s Pigou and Musgraves condition of maximum social advantage.
Public Expenditure: Meaning, Nature & Canons of Public expenditure, Effects of Public Expenditure on economic stabilization, production, distribution and economic growth
Public Revenue: Meaning, Canons of taxation, Incidence and Effect of Taxation and Classification of Taxes: Single vs. Multiple, Proportional vs. Progressive, Direct and Indirect Tax.
Public Debt: Meaning, Types of Debt, and Limitation of Raising Public Debt.
Deficit Financing: Various concepts of Deficit Financing- Revenue deficit, Fiscal deficit, and Primary deficit.
Federal Finance: Meaning of federal finance, Center- State financial relations in India.
Finance Commission-Recommendations of recent Finance Commission
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• B.P.Tyagi – Public Finance, Jai Prakash Nath & Co., Meerut.
• Jain, Khanna and Tiwari, “Banking and Public Finance”, V.K.India Enterprises, New Delhi
Musgrave R.A. and Musgrave P.A. – Public Finance in Theory and Practice., Tata Mc graw Hill
• M.L.Seth, Money, Banking, International Finance and Public Finance, Educational Publication, Agra.