1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971455803321

Autore

Kocherlakota Narayana Rao <1963->

Titolo

The new dynamic public finance / / Narayana R. Kocherlakota

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2010

ISBN

9786612569272

9781282569270

1282569279

9781400835270

1400835275

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Collana

Toulouse lectures in economics

Disciplina

336.001/5195

Soggetti

Fiscal policy - Mathematical models

Taxation - Mathematical models

Finance, Public - Mathematical models

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Ramsey Approach and Its Problems -- 3. Basics of Dynamic Social Contracting -- 4. Dynamic Optimal Taxation: Lessons for Macroeconomists -- 5. Optimal Intergenerational Taxation -- 6. Quantitative Analysis: Methods and Results -- 7. The Way Forward -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Optimal tax design attempts to resolve a well-known trade-off: namely, that high taxes are bad insofar as they discourage people from working, but good to the degree that, by redistributing wealth, they help insure people against productivity shocks. Until recently, however, economic research on this question either ignored people's uncertainty about their future productivities or imposed strong and unrealistic functional form restrictions on taxes. In response to these problems, the new dynamic public finance was developed to study the design of optimal taxes given only minimal restrictions on the set of possible tax instruments, and on the nature of shocks affecting people in the economy. In this book, Narayana Kocherlakota surveys and discusses this exciting new approach to public finance. An important book for



advanced PhD courses in public finance and macroeconomics, The New Dynamic Public Finance provides a formal connection between the problem of dynamic optimal taxation and dynamic principal-agent contracting theory. This connection means that the properties of solutions to principal-agent problems can be used to determine the properties of optimal tax systems. The book shows that such optimal tax systems necessarily involve asset income taxes, which may depend in sophisticated ways on current and past labor incomes. It also addresses the implications of this new approach for qualitative properties of optimal monetary policy, optimal government debt policy, and optimal bequest taxes. In addition, the book describes computational methods for approximate calculation of optimal taxes, and discusses possible paths for future research.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910640390303321

Autore

Orton Mark

Titolo

Football and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina : La Nuestra / / by Mark Orton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031205897

9783031205880

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics, , 2365-9998

Disciplina

796.334

796.3340982

Soggetti

Latin America - History

History, Modern

Sports - History

Latin American History

Modern History

Sport History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: ‘The Virile English Game’: The Origins of Argentine Football 1867–1912 -- Chapter 3: Quién Somos? (Who are We?) 1913–1930 -- Chapter 4: Argentinidad through the Looking Glass 1913-1930 -- Chapter 5: Political Football: The Age of Decline? 1931-1958 -- Chapter 6: The Age of Revolution 1959–1976 -- Chapter 7: In the Shadow of the Proceso 1976–1983 -- Chapter 8: False Dawn: From Democratic Restoration to Economic Armageddon 1983–2002 -- Chapter 9: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines how since its arrival in 1867 with British immigrants, football become the key cultural signifier of national identity in Argentina over the long twentieth century. With the international exploits of players such as Luis Monti, Alfredo Di Stéfano and Diego Maradona, the sport has projected Argentina onto the global consciousness not seen in any other way. In this book, Mark Orton challenges existing myths surrounding the nativisation of football in Argentina away from British influence, as he shows how the game provided a conduit for the assimilation of millions of European immigrants in the early decades of the century into a new Argentine ‘race’. The book also examines how football gave some of the ‘voiceless others’ such as women, Afro-Argentines, indigenous people and those in the interior an arena to project themselves in an Argentine society that was masculine, white and Buenos Aires-dominated. Mark A. Orton is an independent researcher witha PhD and MA in sports history from the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. His research interests focus on national identity and sport in Spain and Latin America.