public finance

Scope Note

Government budgets and financial estimates; statistics of public revenues and expenditures; government accounts; appropriations and financial legislation; disposition of surplus revenues; methods of meeting deficits (e.g., borrowing, currency inflation, debt repudiation); fiscal policies (e.g., use of public finance to influence foreign trade or employment); public debt and debt service; issuance and manipulation of currency; relations of the treasury with private banks; government banks; etc.

Identifier

Broader Term

• 650 government activities

Related Terms

• 426 borrowing and lending
• 436 medium of exchange
• 451 accounting
• 453 banking