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Tax compliance and tax morale : a theoretical and empirical analysis
Torgler, Benno - 2007
The question of why citizens pay their taxes has attracted increased attention in the tax compliance literature of late. In this book, Benno Torgler considers the evidence that suggests that enforcement efforts cannot fully explain the high degree of tax compliance within society. To attempt to...
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A dynamic theory of taxation : integrating Kalecki into modern public finance
Laramie, Anthony J. - 2000
stability without affecting income equality. Immediately following the publication of Keynes's General Theory, Kalecki … recognized that the theory of tax had to be re-thought, as aggregate income could no longer be thought of as fixed with respect … without having a negative impact on equity. They incorporate Kalecki's theory of tax incidence into an analysis of income …
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Taxation and the promotion of human happiness : an essay
Norman, George Warde - 2009
George Warde Norman was a Director of the Bank of England from 1821 to 1872, a key figure behind the Bank Charter Act of 1844, and one of the founders of the Political Economy Club. In 1821 G.W. Norman began an essay on taxation as part of the utilitarian programme. His vision was for increased...
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Market failure or success : the new debate
Crampton, Eric (contributor); Cowen, Tyler (contributor) - 2002
Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network effects. According to the new paradigm, we can expect substantial failure in the markets for labor, credit, insurance, software, new technologies and even used cars, to give but a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850972
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The economics of social protection
Söderström, Lars - 2008
This book focuses on arrangements for redistributing consumption opportunities over the life cycle and for providing compensation for income losses or large expenditures due to reasons such as illness and unemployment. After extensive coverage of the nature of inequalities in income and wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851435
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Fiscal policy and environmental welfare : modelling interjurisdictional competition
Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten - 1998 - Revised version of the author's thesis
In this innovative book the author examines the link between environmental, trade and industrial policies within an interregional setting. He models how regional governments, using tax rates on real capital and pollutant emissions, determine policies to favour their residents in terms of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473840
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The history of economic analysis : selected essays
Creedy, John - 1998
This book brings together John Creedy's most important essays on the history of economic analysis. The book contributes to our understanding of the development of economics by looking at the subject and some of its major players including Pareto, Edgeworth, Marshall and Wicksell, from an...
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Economics, welfare policy, and the history of economic thought : essays in honour of Arnold Heertje
Fase, M. M. G. (ed.); Kanning, W. (ed.);  … - 1999
theory and policy. In particular, they follow in the tradition of his work on oligopoly and price theory, welfare theory and … policy, growth theory, environmental economics, technical change and the history of economic thought and methodology. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473888
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Contingent valuation and endangered species : methodological issues and applications
Jakobsson, Kristin M.; Dragun, Andrew K. - 1996
Contingent Valuation and Endangered Species provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the contingent valuation method as applied to the profound social problem of biodiversity conservation. The contingent valuation method allows the explicit identification and valuation of the non-use...
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Economic behaviour and taxation
Alm, James (contributor);  … - 2016
-Taking: Theory and Evidence for the U.S.', Journal of Public Economics, 91 (7-8), August, 1479-505 -- Åsa Hansson (2012), 'Tax Policy … Looney and Kory Kroft (2009), 'Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence', American Economic Review, 99 (4), September, 1145 …
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