Public finance and taxation

What is the nature of the firm?

An authoritative study of attempts to deregulate and roll back the state in Britain from 1979-1997.

These essays explore the utility of thinking about public-private partnerships for local economic development.

This book examines the procedures for determining the pay of public sector workers in six European Countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

This non-technical volume analyses topical problems of public finance in a changing world characterized by growing mobility of production factors, liberalized economic policy regimes, and the formation of new nations.

Highlighting recent revolutionary changes, this volume deals with the ongoing transformation from central planning towards more efficient economic structures in Eastern and Central Europe and the former USSR.

Investigates various aspects of inflation - the recent history of inflation as well as potential sources of changes, the technical issues regarding the measurement of inflation, the indicators for future inflation, and the policy implications to achieve and maintain price stability.

Tax Havens for International Business is a special management report that shows how the establishment of a tax haven operation, in any of many locations worldwide, can save more money than any internal tax-shelter programme.

Locates the inefficiencies of the traditional public enterprise model within its management and contextual factors.

The book examines the effect of various public policies on economic performance in Japan.

Governments need to know how much revenue their tax systems will raise, who will pay tax and what the effects on the incentives to save, work and invest will be.

The Nordic tax systems have recently undergone dramatic changes.

Despite the various policy approaches tried over the years, the essential problem of the Latin American debt remains unabated - that financing the debts' burden impairs the developmental efforts of the region.

Using Thai-language archival material, this book examines a crucial element in the dismantling of the traditional government structure and the installation of a Western-style administration - the creation of a modern Ministry of Finance.

Presents the policies and strategies of a wide-ranging group of ministerial personalities, central bankers, regulators and chief or senior executives of major financial and industrial groups.

This volume contains 24 of the contributions made to the conference on "e;Economic Decision-making in a Changing World"e; held in 1988.

The books in this series aim to reflect the enormous economic and political changes that small and medium-sized nations in East and South-East Asia have been undergoing in the 1970s and 1980s and to show the impact of these changes on the world economy.

How much does the Soviet Union spend on defense, economic development, social welfare, and education?

FISCAL ADMINISTRATION, Tenth Edition, gives you the power to understand public finances as a participant who can put the process together, not just as a bystander.

FEDERAL TAX RESEARCH, 11E provides unparalleled hands-on tax research training and practice you need using the latest versions of the most widely used online tax research tools, such as Thomson Reuters Checkpoint, CCH IntelliConnect, and BNA Bloomberg.

Education, Capitalism and the Global Crisis focuses on Andrew Gamble's book The Spectre at the Feast and its analysis of the background to, conduct of, and possible consequences and opportunities brought about by, the current global economic crisis.

Education, Capitalism and the Global Crisis focuses on Andrew Gamble's book The Spectre at the Feast and its analysis of the background to, conduct of, and possible consequences and opportunities brought about by, the current global economic crisis.

Fifty years ago, familiar images of the lottery would have been strange, as no state lottery existed then.

Federalism in Germany has come to be viewed as the root cause of the country's current economic and social malaise.

Federalism in Germany has come to be viewed as the root cause of the country's current economic and social malaise.

This is a third edition of a successful textbook that provides a contemporary account of how social services in the UK are paid for.

This is a third edition of a successful textbook that provides a contemporary account of how social services in the UK are paid for.

Aims to review the issues raised by the state provision of social benefits and to examine the principles on which their provision may be deemed to rest.

Aims to review the issues raised by the state provision of social benefits and to examine the principles on which their provision may be deemed to rest.

Originally published in 1991, user charges and earmarked taxes are methods by which people pay directly for the services they recieve from government.

Originally published in 1991, user charges and earmarked taxes are methods by which people pay directly for the services they recieve from government.

The Role of Money examines the mystery of money in its social aspect and illustrates what money now is, what is does and what it should do.

The Role of Money examines the mystery of money in its social aspect and illustrates what money now is, what is does and what it should do.

The book explores whether fiscal policies can secure full employment without inflation, one of the key questions in economics after Keynes.

The book explores whether fiscal policies can secure full employment without inflation, one of the key questions in economics after Keynes.

'This is one of those rare technical books which has an importance outside its own field' The Daily Telegraph.

'This is one of those rare technical books which has an importance outside its own field' The Daily Telegraph.

The purpose of this collection of essays is to shed some light on the complex relationship between environmental quality and the distribution of income.

The purpose of this collection of essays is to shed some light on the complex relationship between environmental quality and the distribution of income.

First published in 1976, the essays in this volume are concerned with the distribution of income and wealth.