Peasants versus city-dwellers [[electronic resource] ] : taxation and the burden of economic development / / Raaj K. Sah, Joseph E. Stiglitz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454148103321
• Autore: Sah Raaj Kumar
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Clarendon Press, 1992
• ISBN: 1-281-97821-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): StiglitzJoseph E
• Disciplina: 338.90091724
• Soggetti: Rural development - Developing countries; Rural poor - Taxation - Developing countries; Income distribution - Developing countries; Taxation - Developing countries; Electronic books.; Developing countries Economic policy; Developing countries Economic conditions
• 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. [209]-215) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: PREFACE; Contents; PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO ISSUES AND METHODOLOGY; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1 Normative versus Positive Analysis; 1.2 Analysis under Limited Data Availability; 1.3 Policy and Political Economy; 1.4 General-Equilibrium Analysis; 1.5 The Structure of the Book; 1.6 The Nature of the Results; 1.7 Some Remarks on the Role of Theory; 2. THE OBJECTIVES AND INSTRUMENTS OF GOVERNMENT POLICY AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY IN LDCs; 2.1 Stated Objectives of Food-Related Policies; 2.2 Putting Agricultural Policies in Perspective; 2.3 The Economic Structure of LDCs; 2.4 Concluding Remarks; 3. AN APPROACH TO APPLIED WELFARE ECONOMICS3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Theoretical Background; 3.3 Applied Welfare Economics for LDCs; PART II: INTER-SECTORAL TAXATION POLICIES; 4. RURAL-URBAN PRICES IN OPEN ECONOMIES; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 A Simple Model; 4.3 Analysis of Changes in Agricultural and Industrial Prices; 4.4 Price-Productivity Effects; Appendix; 5. THE PRICE SCISSORS IN OPEN ECONOMIES; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Effects on the Investible Surplus of ; Changes in the Price Scissors; 5.3 Welfare Effects of Changing the Price Scissors; 5.4 Optimal Price Scissors; 5.5 Concluding Remarks; 6. THE PRICE SCISSORS IN CLOSED AND PARTIALLY CLOSED SOCIALIST ECONOMIES6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Model; 6.3 Reform in the Price Scissors; 6.4 Optimal Price Scissors; 6.5 Economies with Traded and Non-Traded Goods; 6.6 Concluding Remarks; Appendix; 7. THE SOVIET INDUSTRIALIZATION DEBATE AND COLLECTIVIZATION; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Preobrazhensky's Propositions; 7.3 The Correct Size of the Price Scissors; 7.4 Collectivization; 7.5 A Postscript on the Soviet Debate; PART III: THE RURAL SECTOR; 8. INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND ALTERNATIVE ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS WITHIN THE RURAL SECTOR; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Distributional Effects8.3 Alternative Forms of Rural Organization; 8.4 Effects of Wages and Prices on Rural Productivity; 8.5 Concluding Remarks; 9. TAXES AND SUBSIDIES ON DIFFERENT GOODS IN THE RURAL SECTOR; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 A General Formulation; 9.3 Informationally Parsimonious Pareto-Improving Price Reforms for Cash-Crops and Manufactured Inputs; 9.4 Should Some Cash-Crops or Manufactured Inputs be Taxed and Others Subsidized?; 9.5 Some Caveats; Appendix; PART IV: THE URBAN SECTOR; 10. THE IMPACT OF URBAN WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT DETERMINATION ON TAXATION POLICIES; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 A General Formulation of Urban Wage-Determination10.3 Urban-Rural Prices with an Endogenous Urban Wage; 10.4 Price Scissors with Endogenous Wages; 10.5 Endogenous Urban Wage versus Government-Controlled Urban Wage: Which is the Appropriate Assumption for LDCs?; 10.6 Note on the Urban Wage Fixed in Terms of the Utility Level; 10.7 Urban Unemployment; 11. SOME ASPECTS OF THE WAGE-PRODUCTIVITY HYPOTHESIS THAT ARE RELEVANT FOR TAXATION ANALYSIS; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Why Do Wages and Prices Affect Productivity?; 11.3 A Model of Wages, Prices, Productivity, and Unemployment; 12. TAXES AND SUBSIDIES ON DIFFERENT GOODS IN THE URBAN SECTOR