to income tax and transfer systems, using a behavioural tax microsimulation model. It highlights how these models allow … for the full details of tax systems and the considerable population heterogeneity that is found in practice. John Creedy … and Penny Mok look at how such models can be used to obtain summary measures that are relevant in tax debates. These …

achieve a variety of economic and social objectives. Today many governments use the tax system to stimulate economic growth … long-term sustainable environmental policy. Currently, in the debate on global warming, the use of tax instruments to … empirical information, while at the same time presenting an overview of the latest theory and best practices. In doing so, many …

) investigate the beneficial directions for medium-term tax reform in the light of global developments and lessons from the latest … taxation research. In addressing this issue, they review recent advances in both the theoretical and empirical tax literature …; international and corporate taxation; personal tax and welfare systems; environmental taxation; and country-specific tax reform …

issues connected with growth theory considered from different theoretical perspectives. Its uniqueness is derived from the … classical tradition, modern theory, and heterodox models; problems of policy; dynamics and business cycles; and the role of … scholars of the theory of economic growth, the theory of distribution, macroeconomics, classical and Keynesian economics, as …

rationality. The analysis begins with the development of modern decision theory, covers the interwar debates over the role of … of game and decision theory …

, 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 …

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 …