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Fiscal policy and social welfare : an analysis of alternative tax and transfer systems
Creedy, John - 1996
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473921
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The Asian 'poverty miracle' : impressive accomplishments or incomplete achievements
Wan, Guang Hua (contributor); Silber, Jacques (contributor) - 2016
Introduction / Jacques Silber and Guanghua Wan -- 1. An Asian poverty line? issues and options / Stephan Klasen -- 2. A … poverty line contingent on reference groups: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries / Satya R …. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, and Jacques Silber -- 3. Concepts and measurement of vulnerability to poverty and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419895
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Human development in the era of globalization : essays in honor of Keith B. Griffin
Boyce, James K. (contributor); Griffin, Keith B. (contributor) - 2006
pt. 1. Perspectives on Chinese development -- pt. 2. Agriculture and rural poverty -- pt. 3. Dimensions of human … development -- pt. 4. Globalization and inequality -- pt. 5. Strategies for reducing poverty and inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851660
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Economic growth and distribution : on the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
Salvadori, Neri (ed.) - 2006
Economic Growth and Distribution isolates and compares the logical structures and methodological underpinnings underlying the relationship between economic growth and distribution. It carries out an in-depth analysis of a wide range of issues connected with growth theory considered from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473998
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Connecting Asia : infrastructure for integrating south and southeast Asia
Plummer, Michael G. (contributor);  … - 2016
This book analyses how closer regional connectivity and economic integration between South Asia and Southeast Asia can benefit both regions. With a focus on the role played by infrastructure and public policies in facilitating this process, it provides a detailed and up-to-date discussion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419846
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Computable economics
Velupillai, K. Vela - 2011
Genesis of Simulation in Dynamics: Pursuing the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY. -- Wittgenstein …
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Modelling the composition of government expenditure
Creedy, John - 2011
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Knowledge, beliefs and economics
Festré, Agnès (contributor); Arena, Richard (contributor) - 2006
This book surveys how economists engage with knowledge and beliefs in various fields of economic analysis, such as general equilibrium theory, decision theory, game theory, experimental economics, evolutionary theory of the firm, financial markets and the history of economic thought
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851754
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General equilibrium analysis and the theory of markets
Costa, Manuel Luís - 1998
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General equilibrium, capital and macroeconomics : a key to recent controversies in equilibrium theory
Petri, Fabio - 2004
This book argues that the shift in general equilibrium theory, from its early long-period to the modern very-short-period versions, has had very important consequences which are insufficiently appreciated by large parts of the economics profession. This shift has produced new difficulties, and...
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