| 1 | 01. Introduction: Scope of public finance, emergence of fiscal theory, and its relation with social sciences | [2] |
| 2 | 02. From the Middle Ages to the modern state: Ibn Khaldun’s views on public finance and early thought | [1], [5], [11], [12] |
| 3 | 03. Fiscal thought of the modern state: Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes, and absolutist state finance | [13] |
| 4 | 04. Fiscal thought of the Enlightenment: Contributions of Montesquieu and Rousseau | [6], [9] |
| 5 | 05. Physiocracy: Economic order in agrarian society and public finance | [13] |
| 6 | 06. Classical political economy: Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and the classical approach to public finance | [8], [13] |
| 7 | 07. Marx’s political economy: Capitalist production, classes, and public finance | [8], [13] |
| 8 | 08. The German historical school of finance: Cameralism, Wagner, and fiscal state debates | [4], [13] |
| 9 | 09. Neoclassical fiscal theories: Public goods, optimal taxation, and externalities | [7] |
| 10 | 10. Keynesian fiscal theory: State intervention, crises, and the welfare state | [8], [13] |
| 11 | 11. Musgrave and the modern approach to public finance | [14] |
| 12 | 12. Public choice theory, institutional economics, and fiscal crises of the state | [3], [7], [10] |
| 13 | 13. Alternative approaches: Marxist fiscal theories, fiscal sociology, and multidisciplinary perspectives | [2], [3] |
| 14 | 14. Contemporary debates: Neoliberalism, the 2008 crisis, and the transformation of public finance | [3] |