Taxation-both corporate and personal-has been held responsible for the low investment and productivity growth rates experienced in the West during the last decade. This book, a comparative study of the taxation of income from capital in the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and West...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 Main Elements of the Swedish Welfare State -- 3 The Swedish Growth Experience -- 4 Growth, Government, and the Welfare State -- 5 Labor Market Interventions -- 6 Investment and...

Intro -- Preface -- 1 The Dialectics of Work and Welfare -- 2 Early Retirement: Stability, Reversal, or Redefinition -- 3 The Netherlands: The Loreley-Effect of Early Exit -- 4 Germany: The Concerted Transition from Work to Welfare -- 5 Sweden: Policy Dilemmas of the Changing Age Structure in a...

Taxation in Colonial America examines life in the thirteen original American colonies through the revealing lens of the taxes levied on and by the colonists. Spanning the turbulent years from the founding of the Jamestown settlement to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Alvin Rabushka...

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- Study Background -- Research Questions -- Scope and Objectives of the Study -- Institutional Theory -- The Management Process -- Milestones and Deliverables --...

The concept of sustainable fashion is becoming more relevant in today's society. The purpose of this research is to identify the determinants of the purchase intention of sustainable fashion, and the relationship between price and the purchase of sustainable fashion. A questionnaire was...

Once heralded in the 1950s and 1960s as a model welfare state, Sweden is now in transition and in trouble since its economic plunge in the early 1990s. This volume presents ten essays that examine Sweden's economic problems from a U.S. perspective. Exploring such diverse topics as income...