This paper argues that increased factor mobility incurs the risk of dismantling the welfare state, even though this state may have useful allocative functions. It will be difficult to finance the welfare state with taxes on capital and it may even be necessary to subsidize this factor in the...

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Tax Theory to Policy: An Overview -- 2.1 Landmarks of Optimal Tax Theory -- 2.2 The Evolution of Policy and Advice -- 2.3 Challenges for the Theory of Tax Policy -- 2.4 Optimal Analysis versus Reform Analysis --...

The sixteen essays in this book were written to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of Richard Musgrave and to commemorate the tenth anniversary of CES, the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich. Musgrave is considered to be a founding father or modern public economics. He belongs...