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Local Government Charge!
Author(s) -
Mabey Simon
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1984.tb01642.x
Subject(s) - local government , public expenditure , economics , government (linguistics) , public finance , charge (physics) , public administration , public good , economic history , political science , public economics , macroeconomics , microeconomics , physics , philosophy , linguistics , quantum mechanics
Professor C. D. Foster, with two co‐authors, Richard Jackman and Maurice Perlman of the London School of Economics, concluded a massive tome in 1980 on local government financing with the estimate that only 10% or less of local government expenditure was on public goods (cf article by Erank van Dun, p. 28). Yet Whitehall politicians and local Councillors have acted for years as though the only way to confine cuts in (or raise) local expenditure was by raising rates. Simon Mabey, Westminster City Councillor, argues that charging is the long‐neglected instrument of local financing.