The central purpose of this book is to analyse the optimal allocation of local public goods or services (for example garbage collection, police, fire brigades and medical services) in large urban agglomerations and the allocation consequences of increasing competition in the provision of them....

Preface / William A. Fischel -- A pure theory of local expenditures (1956) / Charles M. Tiebout -- Footloose at fifty : an introduction to the Tiebout anniversary essays / William A. Fischel -- The many faces of the Tiebout Model / Wallace E. Oates -- Commentary / Robert Inman -- California's...