Taxation, incomplete markets, and social security [[electronic resource] ] : the 2000 Munich lectures / / Peter A. Diamond

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450961403321
• Autore: Diamond Peter A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2003
• ISBN: 0-262-27168-0; 1-4237-2959-5
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 160 p
• Collana: Munich lectures in economics
• Disciplina: 330.12/6
• Soggetti: Welfare economics; Welfare state; Taxation; Capitalism; Social security - Finance; Taxation - Germany; Capitalism - Germany; Social security - Germany - Finance; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "CES."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-156) and indexes.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book, Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information, he uses a variety of simple models to illuminate the economic forces that bear on specific social security policy issues. The focus is on the degree of progressivity desirable in social security and the design of incentives to delay retirement beyond the earliest age of eligibility for benefits. Before analyzing these models, Diamond presents introductions to optimal income tax theory and the theory of incomplete markets. He incorporates recent theoretical developments such as time-inconsistent preferences into his analyses and shows that distorting taxes and a measure of progressivity in benefits are desirable. Diamond also ; discusses social security reform, with a focus on Germany.

Visions in late medieval England [[electronic resource] ] : lay spirituality and sacred glimpses of the hidden worlds of faith / / by Gwenfair Walters Adams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782320603321
• Autore: Adams Gwenfair Walters
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007
• ISBN: 1-281-91720-6; 9786611917203; 90-474-1925-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Collana: Studies in the history of Christian traditions, , 1573-5664 ; ; v. 130
• Disciplina: 248.2/9
• Soggetti: Visions - History - To 1500; Spirituality - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500; Spiritual warfare - History - To 1500; Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500; England Church history 1066-1485
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-246) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Transactions of satisfaction and visions of the otherworld -- Reciprocated devotion and visitations of the saints -- Spiritual warfare in demonic encounters -- Seeing through the surface : vision as supra-sacramental sight -- Visions, power, and the dynamic of mediated revelation -- Appendix A : Vision : range of uses of term in late medieval England -- Appendix B : Byland Abbey ghost stories as contemporary accounts -- Appendix C : Additional visions and vision types.
• Sommario/riassunto: Visions were highly popular in the late Middle Ages, whether preached as vivid stories from the pulpit, illuminated in saint-filled manuscripts, or experienced during the breathless anticipation of a Mass or eerie darkness of a Yorkshire graveyard. This volume is the first to map out the wide range of vision types in late medieval English lay piety. ; Analyzing 1000 visionary accounts gathered from sermon and exempla collections, religious devotional works, saints’ legends, and lay stories, it explores five central dynamics of spirituality that visions shaped and sustained: Transactions of Satisfaction (visits to and from purgatory and hell), Reciprocated Devotion (visitations of the saints), Spiritual Warfare (attacks by demons), Supra-Sacramental Sight (Mass and Passion sightings), and Mediated Revelation (prophetic visions).