Public finance and taxation

During the ongoing global financial crisis, a lack of moral and ethical leadership in society has been exposed.

This is the 31st annual edition of the leading guide to taxation in Britain.

This book explores new forms of private, mutual municipal, public-private and 'reverse' state funding of public investments, co-payments and shared contributions, vouchers, and pooled public risk-financing.

Drawn from the results of five seminars this unique book looks at the four areas of: public sector reform; essential features for public leaders; public leadership in action; and the outline of a public leadership approach for the future.

This book explains how financial institutions, such as banks and finance houses, manage their portfolios of credit cards, loans, mortgages and other types of retail credit agreements.

This volume contributes to empirical research on the role of national fiscal rules and institutions in shaping fiscal policies.

This book addresses the EU as powerful driver of the wave of privatizations in the network industries and public services since the early 1990s.

Critics of referendums often lament that big money may buy success at the ballot box.

This book provides a clear and concise explanation of withholding tax and how to leverage best practice to generate improved investment performance.

The 38th annual edition of the leading guide to taxation in Britain.

Moving beyond the 'post-Washington consensus', this book shifts the focus of development policy debates away from expenditures and austerity and towards revenues and resources.

Presenting capitalisms as open, system-like configurations, this book argues four ideal-typical varieties (liberal, statist, corporatist, meso-communitarian) and analyzes the socio-economic performances of advanced capitalisms.

Recognizing increasing returns disrupts much of the established wisdom in economic analysis, making money non-neutral, equity conflict with freedom, and encouraging goods with increasing returns efficient.

Analyses in the Economics of Aging summarizes a massive amount of new research on several popular and less-examined topics pertaining to the relationship between economics and aging.

In the increasingly global economy, domestic tax policies have taken on a new importance for international economics.

For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more.

For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more.

For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more.

For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more.

In fiscal year 1981-82, state and local government spending actually exceeded federal nondefense spending.

We often think of fiscal decisions as being made by a single government, but in the United States the reality is that an astounding number of entities have the power to tax and spend.

Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States.

Government spending has increased dramatically in the United States since World War II despite the many rules intended to rein in the insatiable appetite for tax revenue most politicians seem to share.

This ninth phase of the International Social Security project, which studies the experiences of twelve developed countries, examines the effects of public pension reform on employment at older ages.

Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic.

Taxing Women comprises both an insightful, critical analysis of the gender biases in current tax laws and a wake-up call for all those concerned with gender justice to pay more attention to the pervasive impact of such laws.

Who and what a government taxes, and how the government spends the money collected, are questions of primary concern to governments large and small, national and local.

Everyone knows that the current tax system is unfair.

The rapid emergence of East Asia as an important geopolitical-economic entity has been one of the most visible and striking changes in the international economy in recent years.

Because the actions of multinational corporations have a clear and direct effect on the flow of capital throughout the world, how and why these firms behave the way they do is a major issue for national governments and their policymakers.

As a united global economy evolves, economists and policymakers are forced to consider whether the current system of taxing income is inconsistent with the trend toward liberalized world financial flows and increased international competition.

Chicago and New York share similar backgrounds but have had strikingly different fates.

Tax policy debates-and reforms-depend heavily on estimates of how alternative tax rules would affect behavior.

In the increasingly global business environment of the 1990s, policymakers and executives of multinational corporations must make informed decisions based on a sound knowledge of U.

The tax rules of the United States and other countries have intended and unintended effects on the operations of multinational corporations, influencing everything from the formation and allocation of capital to competitive strategies.

Economists have long recognized the importance of capital accumulation for productivity and economic growth.

This book offers a critical perspective on the issues related to women's empowerment, microfinance, and entrepreneurship in India.

The United States is distinctive among Western countries in its reliance on nonprofit institutions to perform major social functions.

Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment analyzes the changing economic and demographic environment in which social insurance programs that benefit elderly households will operate.

No one likes paying taxes, much less the process of filing tax returns.

Politicians and citizens universally agree that Canada's urban infrastructure urgently needs work.

Real estate is typically classified as an alternative to more traditional investments such as stocks and bonds.

Real estate is typically classified as an alternative to more traditional investments such as stocks and bonds.

The Death of the Income Tax explains how the current income tax is needlessly complex, contains perverse incentives against saving and investment, fails to use modern technology to ease compliance and collection burdens, and is subject to micromanaging and mismanaging by Congress.

After 1688, Britain underwent a revolution in public finance, and the cost of borrowing declined sharply.

State and local government fiscal systems have increasingly become vulnerable to economic changes.

The Federal Reserve System--the central bank of the United States, better known as The Fed--has never been more controversial.

Cost-benefit analysis -- the formal estimating and weighing of the costs and benefits of policy alternatives -- is a standard tool for governments in advanced economies.

On tax day, April 15, 2010, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets with signs demanding lower taxes on the richest one percent.

In a capitalist economy, taxes are the most important instrument by which the political system puts into practice a conception of economic and distributive justice.