This book first published in 1979 examines the economic lives of municipal governments. Local government provides a great deal of services all of which must be paid for. The sources of these revenues are analysed here in three sections: bonding and debt; taxation; and other miscellaneous sources of revenue. The bibliographic entries stretch back into the nineteenth century and see a large postwar increase as the financial problems of municipal corporations grew alongside the growth of the suburbs. |Municipal Bonding and Taxation | Economics