pt. 1. Culture, obesity and institutions -- pt. 2. Obesity and the individual -- pt. 3. Obesity and business -- pt. 4 …. Obesity and government -- pt. 5. Lessons from the past -- pt. 6. Policy conclusions. …The effects of obesity have become practically ubiquitous in the US. This book aims to provide an alternative framework …

founded upon direct taxation in the form of a comprehensive property tax. He continued to work on the essay over many years …, never losing his faith in the utilitarian ideal or his belief in the property tax solution as the key to fiscal happiness … utilitarianism to liberal thinking on taxation. As such, this unique book will appeal to specialists in the history of economic …

1. Ethics and economics -- 2. Some fundamentals -- 3. Origins of ethics -- 4. The case for indirect utilitarianism -- 5 …. What counts as utility? -- 6. The alleged problem of aggregation -- 7. Is utilitarianism immoral? -- 8. Altruism and self …-interest -- 9. Duty and universalizability -- 10. Rivals of utilitarianism -- 11. Law, government, and policy -- 12. Utilitarianism …

In most industrialized countries the tax burden of poor people has increased dramatically over the last few decades …1. Introduction -- 2. A comparative welfare state analysis of tax mixes -- 3. The economics of taxing labour -- 4 …. Political economy applied to tax mixes -- 5. Empirical evaluation -- 6. Conclusion : employment and redistribution are not …

interregional setting. He models how regional governments, using tax rates on real capital and pollutant emissions, determine …. Regions or countries engage in competition for mobile capital in a world where production causes pollution and tax revenues …

political preferences, and regards the economist's utilitarian social welfare theory as instrumental to the achievement of … indeterminacy of social welfare theory's fundamental theoretical constructs. In contrast, the author shows that Kant's 'two points … grounded in Kant's 'two points of view', that utilitarian social welfare theory cannot be instrumental to the achievement of …

the teaching of economics. It includes state-of-the-art moral theory alongside traditional approaches to emphasise why …

pt. 1. General problems of democracy -- pt. 2. Institutional aspects of democracy -- pt. 3. Voting issues -- pt. 4 … literature, providing original and enlightening perspectives on the theory of democracy …