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 …

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Theory and policy -- pt. 3. Tax functions and choices -- pt. 4. Tax revenue -- pt. 5. Tax …This comprehensive and lucid book is concerned with the analysis of tax design and the problems involved in choosing a … tax and transfer structure. John Creedy discusses central problems which are illustrated using relatively simple models …

decades. It critically examines productivity growth, factor accumulation and economic efficiency at both the macro and micro …

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 … are required to finance public goods. In Fiscal Policy and Environmental Welfare the author considers the efficiency …

tax surcharge - while largely ignoring the important economic interdependencies which affect them. In The Economics of … with the government's budget constraint. This model is also used to consider the effects of alternative tax and grant …

demonstrates the considerable influence that his work on economic theory has had on his contemporaries, and the profession as a … / Mark Roberts -- Endogenous growth theory : a partial critique / Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer -- The nature of economic … growth and the neoclassical approach. : more questions than answers? / John McCombie -- On the core of macroeconomic theory …