§ 1 Introduction -- § 2 Theoretical foundations of allocation policy -- 1. Benefit-cost analysis and consumer surplus -- 2. Partial versus general microeconomic analysis -- 3. The quantitative importance of allocative efficiency -- § 3 Marginal-cost pricing -- 1. Economic interpretation of marginal-cost pricing -- 2. Joint production, quality differentiation and peakload pricing -- 3. Zerotariffs as a special concept for allocation -- 4. Regulating marginal-cost prices -- 5. Consequeaces for allocation, distribution and stabilization -- § 4 Welfare maximization under a revenue-cost constraint -- 1. Nonlinear and nonuniform pricing -- 2. Uniform pricing à la Ramsey -- 3. On the opportunity costs of financing deficits -- 4. Regulating Ramsey prices -- 5. Economic consequences of Ramsey prices and of two-part tariffs -- § 5 Interdependencies with the private economy -- 1. Interdependencies caused by producers -- 2. Interdependencies caused by consumers -- § 6 Non-allocational objectives -- 1. Description of different non-allocative objectives -- 2. The fundamental optimization problem 94 -- 3. Economic interpretation of the results -- 4. Some remarks on other non-allocational objectives -- § 7 Public-good pricing -- 1. Optimal prices for public goods 108 -- 2. Some remarks on the applicability of public-good pricing -- § 8 Conclusion: Welfare economics, business economics, and political economics -- 1. Business economics of public enterprises -- 2. Political economics of public enterprises -- Appendix Obtaining the Ramsey price structure from maximization of consumer surplus -- References.
