The editor has assembled a stellar group of experts to write about their areas of expertise. Topics include bureaucracy, corruption and tax compliance, public finance in developing economies, taxation in several former Soviet republics, Eastern Europe and China, taxation in the enlarged European...

Throughout much of the twentieth century, economists paid little heed to the role of financial intermediaries in procuring a beneficial allocation of capital. But by the end of the century some financial historians had begun to turn the tide, and the phrase 'finance-growth nexus' became part of...