In Fiscal Policy and Social Welfare John Creedy examines alternative tax and transfer systems and their redistributive … effects. Drawing on original research, this volume concentrates on modelling tax structures and their implications for social … welfare and income distribution. After reviewing various inequality and tax progressivity measures, as well as social welfare …

. Finally, after reviewing the benefits of using simulation games in NRM, the authors stress the ethical issue of changing … of Simulation & Gaming, some key features related to the implementation of gaming in such a context are introduced …

externalities, defined as benefits or costs that are generated as the result of an economic activity, but that do not accrue …

income redistribution and policy in one accessible volume. The introduction describes the genesis and development of a new …

, concentrates on the modelling of indirect tax reform and its distributional implications. Initially, he examines the implications … of alternative indirect tax systems and provides an introductory survey of various measures of welfare change and excess … equilibrium models to uncover various aspects of tax reform. Specifically, he: * addresses the questions of measuring welfare …

agent of the economy. Moreover, such a policy decreases the tax rate of the pension system. …

linkbetween contributions and benefits has an impact on the level of capital per capita if and only if there are inequalities of …-benefitstructure. The tax rate and inequalities decrease, whereas the wealth of each agent increases. However, with a defined …

redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors usually found to affect individual preferences in the literature, the egoistic … motives for redistribution are taken seriously and this article focuses on the role played by the occupational status of … presented here identifies which socio-political groups may be formed on the basis of their preferences for redistribution. …