Raaj K. Sah, Joseph E. Stiglitz

Peasants Versus City-Dwellers

Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and co-author Raaj Sah address one of development's major issues. Most of today's countries face town versus country tensions of increasing severity, including such issues as who should pay how much in taxes, who should get how much in subsidies, and what forms the taxes and subsidies should take. This volume analyses these tensions and issues, taking into account the great diversity of institutions and economic environments observed in different developing countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780199253579
• ISBN-10: 0199253579
• Artikelnr.: 22459549

Autorenporträt

Raaj K. Sah is Professor of Public Policy, University of Chicago. Joseph E. Stiglitz is Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001.

Inhaltsangabe

* I. An Introduction to Issues and Methodology
* 2: The Objectives and Instruments of Government Policy and the
Structure of the Economy in LDCs
* 3: An Approach to Applied Welfare Economics
* II. Inter-Sectoral Taxation Policies
* 5: The Price Scissors in Open Economies
* 6: The Price Scissors in Closed and Partially Closed Socialist
Economies
* 7: The Soviet Industrialization Debate and Collectivization
* III. The Rural Sector
* 9: Taxes and Subsidies on Different Goods in the Rural Sector
* IV. The Urban Sector
* 11: Some Aspects of the Wage-Productivity Hypothesis that are
Relevant for Taxation Analysis
* 12: Taxes and Subsidies on Different Goods in the Urban Sector
* 13: Tax Policy in the Presence of Migration and Urban Unemployment
* 14: Taxation in the Urban Sector: Some Aspects of the Underlying
Model
* 15: The Social Cost of Labour
* 16: Concluding Remarks