economists had done "work of high quality and great quantity in the field of taxation," the theory of public expenditure had been … inquiries. Indeed, by the mid-1980s the 'public expenditure theory' lacuna lamented by Samuelson had largely been filled with … explain this transformation, locating its origins in Richard Musgrave's normative theory of the public household and the …

development of the economic theory and techniques for measuring the demands for nonmarketed goods, and in this chapter we attempt … theory and practical empirical models. …