The leading theorist of the banking school, the main author of the monumental six-volume History of Prices (1838-1857) and the author of the brilliant pamphlet, An Inquiry into the Currency Principle (1844), Thomas Tooke (1774-1858) can be rightfully counted among the most prominent figures in...

Using a novel empirical approach and newly available administrative data on U.S. tax filings, we estimate the corporate elasticity of taxable income, decompose the elasticity into economic responses versus other tax-motivated “accounting” transactions, and determine how responsiveness varies...

This paper attempts to clarify what it means to be open in ICT4D. The current uses and understandings of ‘open’ and ‘openness’ are problematic for at least two reasons. First, openness as an umbrella term covers a multiplicity of connotations, applications, and interpretations. There is...