Instructor’s Manual to accompany Public Finance, Tenth Edition, by Harvey S. Rosen and Ted Gayer
Chapter 1 – Introduction
Brief Outline
1. Public Finance and Ideology
a. The Organic View of Government
b. The Mechanistic View of Government
c. The Viewpoint of This Book
2. Government at a Glance
a. Legal Framework
i. Federal Government
ii. State and Local Governments
b. Size of Government
c. Expenditures
d. Revenues
e. Our Agenda
Suggested Answers to End-of-Chapter Discussion Questions
1.
a. McCain’s statement is consistent with an organic conception of government. Individuals and their goals are less important than the state.
b. Locke makes a clear statement of the mechanistic view of the state in which individual liberty is of paramount importance.
c. Chavez’s statement is consistent with an organic view of government. The individual has significance only as part of society as a whole.