Public finance and taxation

In Public Goods, Public Gains, Link and Scott discuss the systematic application of alternative evaluation methods to estimate the social benefits of publicly financed research and development (R&D).

The world's agenda of international cooperation has changed.

In Global Perspectives on Income Taxation Law, Reuven Avi-Yonah, Nicola Sartori, and Omri Marian cover basic, corporate and international tax law from a comparative perspective.

This book provides an overview of private real estate markets and investments.

This book provides an overview of private real estate markets and investments.

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.

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.

We Are Better Than This fundamentally reframes budget debates in the United States.

We Are Better Than This fundamentally reframes budget debates in the United States.

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.

Public sector entrepreneurship refers to innovative public policy initiatives that generate greater economic prosperity.

Public sector entrepreneurship refers to innovative public policy initiatives that generate greater economic prosperity.

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

Elaborating on the concepts first introduced in Global Public Goods, this book addresses the long overdue issue of how to adjust the concept of public goods to today's economic and political realities.

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.

This is an important study of the crucial issue of alternatives in commercial and public support of broadcasting in the U.

A sophisticated and accessible application of the newest theoretical work in public-policy history and legal studies, this book is a detailed account of how a permanent income tax was enacted into law in the United States.

The countries of East and Southeast Asia have the world's most dynamic money markets.

In his 1972 Janeway Lectures at Princeton, James Tobin, the 1981 Nobel Prize winner for economics, submitted a proposal for a levy on international currency transactions.

Ein Buch, das auf die IHK-Weiterbildungsprüfung „Fachberater/in für Finanzdienstleistun-gen“ vorbereitet und gleichzeitig „Praxiswissen Finanzdienstleistungen“ heißt – widerspricht sich das nicht?

The Dutch tax system distorts economic decisions, treats equal economic positions unequally for tax purposes, and is extraordinarily complex.

The Dutch tax system distorts economic decisions, treats equal economic positions unequally for tax purposes, and is extraordinarily complex.

Public finance is an important branch of economics.

Public finance is an important branch of economics.

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Banks seem all too often involved in cases of misconduct, particularly involving the exploitation of tax systems.

Banks seem all too often involved in cases of misconduct, particularly involving the exploitation of tax systems.

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The last time global sovereign debt reached the level seen today was at the end of the Second World War, and this shaped a generation of economic policymaking.

The last time global sovereign debt reached the level seen today was at the end of the Second World War, and this shaped a generation of economic policymaking.

Although central banking is today often presented as having emerged in the nineteenth or even twentieth century, it has a long and colourful history before 1800, from which important lessons for today's debates can be drawn.

Although central banking is today often presented as having emerged in the nineteenth or even twentieth century, it has a long and colourful history before 1800, from which important lessons for today's debates can be drawn.

Most African countries are in dire need of more tax revenue.

Most African countries are in dire need of more tax revenue.

This is the first book to give a collective treatment of philosophical issues relating to tax.

This is the first book to give a collective treatment of philosophical issues relating to tax.

Low growth, low investment, insufficient spend on infrastructure, weak bank lending to the corporate sector, and funding deficiencies of small and medium-sized enterprises are all causes of concern in Europe.

Low growth, low investment, insufficient spend on infrastructure, weak bank lending to the corporate sector, and funding deficiencies of small and medium-sized enterprises are all causes of concern in Europe.

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Why are some nations wealthy and others poor?

Why are some nations wealthy and others poor?

Central banks came out of the Great Recession with increased power and responsibilities.

Central banks came out of the Great Recession with increased power and responsibilities.

Starting in the early 1990s many emerging and developing economies (EDEs) liberalized their capital accounts, allowing greater freedom for international lenders and investors to enter their markets as well as for their residents to borrow and invest in international financial markets.

Starting in the early 1990s many emerging and developing economies (EDEs) liberalized their capital accounts, allowing greater freedom for international lenders and investors to enter their markets as well as for their residents to borrow and invest in international financial markets.

Why do fewer teenagers in England from disadvantaged backgrounds go to university than young people from better-off families?

Restoring Public Debt Sustainability: The Role of Independent Fiscal Institutions represents the first comprehensive survey of a new generation of independent fiscal institutions, established to promote transparency in public finances through real-time monitoring of the soundness of budgetary policymaking.

This graduate textbook offers advanced and contemporary readings in international trade and economic development and provides an overview of the fundamental topics in this area.

Government information systems are big business (costing over 1 per cent of GDP a year).

In Casino Capitalism Hans-Werner Sinn examines the causes of the banking crisis, points out the flaws in the economic rescue packages, and presents a master plan for the reform of financial markets.