Chapter 1: Background and Emerging Challenges -- Chapter 2: Theory of Fiscal Federalism and Local Fiscal Domain -- Chapter 3: Fiscal Decentralization and Local Area Corporate Social Responsibility -- Chapter 4: Globalization, Climate Change and Changing Face of Urban Public Finance -- Chapter 5:...

In a paper delivered at the December 1955 meeting of the Econometric Society, Paul Samuelson noted that though economists had done "work of high quality and great quantity in the field of taxation," the theory of public expenditure had been "relatively neglected" (1958, 332). Anglo-American...