Wallace Oates is one of the most important scholars in both environmental economics and public finance and this new volume of his essays brings together his recent research in both these areas, covering theory, research and policy. The first half of the book includes papers on the political...

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...