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Investment of public funds

Here are entered works on investments or purchases of securities by governments to earn a return. Works on the expenditure of public funds for projects in the various sectors of the economy, such as agriculture, transportation, health, etc., in order to achieve economic and social development are entered under Public investments.

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• Finance, Public
• Investments
• Legal investments

• Public investments

• Investment of public funds -- European Union countries

• Public funds, Investment of

• A European Public Investment Outlook (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Floriana Cerniglia and Francesco Saraceno (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A European Public Investment Outlook (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Floriana Cerniglia and Francesco Saraceno (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Great Reset: 2021 European Public Investment Outlook (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Floriana Cerniglia, Francesco Saraceno, and Andrew Watt (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Principles of Economics (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2011), by Libby Rittenberg and Timothy D. Tregarthen (PDF at saylor.org)
• Principles of Macroeconomics (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2009), by Libby Rittenberg and Timothy D. Tregarthen (PDF at saylor.org)
• Principles of Microeconomics (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2009), by Libby Rittenberg and Timothy D. Tregarthen (PDF at saylor.org)
• The A B C of Finance: or, The Money and Labor Questions Familiarly Explained to Common People, In Short and Easy Lessons, by Simon Newcomb
  • HTML at econlib.org
  • page images at MOA
• A Discourse on Public Economy and Commerce, by Cesare Beccaria (text at McMaster)
• Public Finance (third edition, 1917), by C. F. Bastable (HTML at econlib.org)
• Thoughts on the Funding System, and Its Effects, by Piercy Ravenstone (HTML at McMaster)
• Public Finance in Democratic Process: Fiscal Institutions and Individual Choice, by James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)

• Red River Campaign: Politics and Cotton in the Civil War (originally published 1958; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ludwell H. Johnson (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Confederate Finance (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1954), by Richard Cecil Todd (PDF at Georgia)
• Facts and Suggestions Relative to Finance & Currency, Addressed to the President of the Confederate States, by Duff Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Retrospectives on Public Finance (from the Fiscal Reform in the Developing World series; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), ed. by Lorraine Eden, contrib. by Malcolm Gillis, Minoru Nakazato, Charles E. McClure, John D. Bossons, Richard B. Goode, William C. Vickrey, Wayne R. Thirsk, John F. Graham, Stanley L. Winer, W. Irwin Gillespie, Melville L. McMillan, Cliff Walsh, John G. Head, Enid Slack, E. G. West, Richard M. Bird, Peggy B. Musgrave, D. A. L. Auld, John Burbidge, Jack M. Mintz, John Sargent, and Richard A. Musgrave (page images at HathiTrust)

• Funds in the Khilafah State (Al-Amwal fi Dowlat Al-Khilafah) (second edition, 1988), by 'Abd al-Qadīm Zallūm (PDF with commentary at hizb-ut-tahrir.org)

• Italian Public Finance (Trade information bulletin #313, supplement to Commerce Reports; Washington: GPO, 1925), by H. C. MacLean
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Executive Documents, Convention, Session 1865: Constitution of North Carolina, With Amendments, and Ordinances and Resolutions Passed by the Convention, Session 1865 (Raleigh: Cannon and Holden, 1865), by North Carolina Constitutional Convention (multiple formats at Google)

• L'Emprunt Dom Miguel (1832) Devant le Droit des Gens et l'Histoire (second edition, in French; Paris: A. Chai et cie., 1880)
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• South Carolina, Her Wrongs and the Remedy: Remarks of Col. Richard Lathers, Delivered at the Opening of the Taxpayers' Convention, in Columbia, S. C., Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1874 (two-column booklet; ca. 1874), by Richard Lathers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• South Carolina, Her Wrongs and the Remedy: Remarks of Col. Richard Lathers, Delivered at the Opening of the Taxpayers' Convention, in Columbia, S. C., Tuesday, February 17th, 1874 (Charleston, SC: News and Courier Job Presses, 1874), by Richard Lathers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• South Carolina, the Condition and the Prospects of the State; Confiscation of Private Property and Repudiation of the Public Debt: Address of Colonel Richard Lathers, Delivered Before the New England Society of Charleston on Forefathers' Day, December 22, 1873 (Charleston, SC: News and Courier Job Presses, 1874), by Richard Lathers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Budgetary Control (second printing; New York: Ronald Press, 1923), by James Oscar McKinsey (page images at HathiTrust)

• International Claims: Their Preparation and Presentation (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1962), by Richard B. Lillich and Gordon A. Christenson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrat: Appraisals and Evidence (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1991), ed. by André Blais and Stéphane Dion (page images at Pitt)

• Post-Crisis Fiscal Policy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014), ed. by Carlo Cottarelli, Philip R. Gerson, and Abdelhak S. Senhadji (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Taxation and the Financial Crisis (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012), ed. by Julian Alworth and Giampaolo Arachi
  • HTML at oxfordscholarship.com
  • PDF at oup.com
• Progress and Confusion: The State of Macroeconomic Policy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016), ed. by Olivier Blanchard, Raghuram Rajan, Kenneth S. Rogoff, and Lawrence H. Summers (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• What Have We Learned? Macroeconomic Policy After the Crisis (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), ed. by George A. Akerlof, Olivier Blanchard, David Romer, and Joseph E. Stiglitz (PDF at dropbox.com)
• Public Finance in Democratic Process: Fiscal Institutions and Individual Choice, by James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)

• Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), ed. by Elinor Ostrom, Roy Gardner, and James Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defensive Internationalism: Providing Public Goods in an Uncertain World (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Davis B. Bobrow and Mark A. Boyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Demand and Supply of Public Goods, by James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)
• Public Finance in Democratic Process: Fiscal Institutions and Individual Choice, by James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)

• Taxation and the Financial Crisis (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012), ed. by Julian Alworth and Giampaolo Arachi
  • HTML at oxfordscholarship.com
  • PDF at oup.com
• The Power to Tax, by Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan (HTML at econlib.org)
• Théorie de l'Impôt: ou, La Dime Sociale (2 volumes, in French; Paris: Guillaumin et cie., 1862), by Clémence Royer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the Principles of Taxation, With Reference to a Property Tax and Its Exceptions (London: J. Murray, 1848), by Charles Babbage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inflation, Trade, and Taxes: Essays in Honor of Alice Bourneuf (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), ed. by David A. Belsley, Edward J. Kane, Paul A. Samuelson, and Robert M. Solow (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (third edition, 1821), by David Ricardo (text files at McMaster)
• Public Finance (third edition, 1917), by C. F. Bastable (HTML at econlib.org)
• The Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, by Charles Babbage
  • text files at McMaster
  • Gutenberg text
• On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (London: J, Murray, 1846), by Charles Babbage (multiple formats at archive.org)

• War is a Racket (New York: Round Table Press, 1935), by Smedley D. Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great Illusion: A Study of the Military Power to National Advantage (London: W. Heinemann, 1912), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great Illusion: A Study of the Military Power to National Advantage (fourth revised and enlarged edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to Their Economic and Social Advantage (third revised and enlarged edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Society of To-Morrow: A Forecast of Its Political and Economic Organisation, by G. de Molinari, trans. by Philip Henry Lee-Warner (HTML at econlib.org)
• Unseen Empire: A Study of the Plight of Nations That Do Not Pay Their Debts (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1912), by David Starr Jordan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• War is a Racket (based on the 1935 edition), by Smedley D. Butler (HTML, PDF, and text at ratical.org)
• Billions for Defense (Headline Books #9; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1937), by William T. Stone and Ryllis Alexander Goslin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Economics of War and Conquest: An Examination of Mr. Norman Angell's Economic Doctrines (London: P. S. King and Son, 1915), by John Harry Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.