Metropolitan City Expenditures [electronic resource] : A Comparative Analysis / [by] Roy W. Bahl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bahl, Roy W.

Series:

A University of Kentucky study

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metropolitan finance--United States.

Metropolitan finance.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (150 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University of Kentucky Press, 1969.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this study of the structure of core city expenditures, Mr. Bahl analyzes the functional relationship between per capita expenditures and selected economic, demographic, and sociological factors. He finds that the problems central to intercity variations in per capita spending are directly related to the coordination of fiscal and physical planning and that economic and social areas, not corporate boundaries, represent the most appropriate planning units.Mr. Bahl extends the static analysis of the pioneering work of Harvey Brazer to a comparative static and temporal context, comparing throug

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; One: The Setting for a Structural Analysis of Metropolitan City Expenditures; Two: Defining a Behavioral Model of Metropolitan Fiscal Activity; Three: The Determinants of Core City Expenditures: A Cross-Section Model for 1960; Four: Temporal Aspects of the Nature of Metropolitan City Spending; Five: The Consistencies in City Expenditure Research: Some Implications for Policy and Theory; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; M; N; P; R; S; T; U

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6186-X

OCLC:

610092385