This book brings together the views and predictions of leading economists published on VoxEU.org months before the developments of late 2008 in a volume that holds its own against the events that followed.

The global financial crisis has changed finance and the global economy forever. The debate over its causes and consequences has only just begun. This book brings together VoxEU.org columns written during the height of the storm from June to December 2008, offering a glimpse of history in the...

Tax and benefit reform in Central and Eastern Europe / David M.G. Newbery -- Tax and benefit reform in the Czech and Slovak Republics / Christopher Heady and Stephen Smith -- Redistributive policy in a transition economy: the case of Hungary / Sarah Jarvis and Stephen Pudney -- The taxation of...