The Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice began publication in 1983 under the title Economia delle scelte … Empoli) desire to amplify and extend the Italian orientation toward public finance that Antonio de Viti de Marco (1888) set …, however, remains unchanged, in that it continues to welcome contributions within public finance and public choice within the …

Expositions of the theory of public finance mostly wrongly assume that taxation is necessary to finance public goods …. Taxation isn't necessary to finance public goods because free riding is an institutional artifact of the analytical dichotomy … hotels and malls which supply public goods without taxation. Center stage in the theory of public finance can alternatively …