xxii, 358pp with occasional charts and figures. Indexed. Compact hardback in blue cloth-covered boards with bind stamped lettering on front and gilt lettering on spine. Very gently rounded at spine corners else boards square, clean and sharp. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. There is a small Foyle's booksellers ticket on the front free paste down. Chapters on the State as Employer and Producer; The Nature of Public Expenditure; Financial Policy-making; Tax Ideals; The Balance Sheet in the Public Sector; Fiscal Policy and Growth; The Budget as an Instrument of Policy; etc.
