Can We Afford to Grow Older? |
Autore | Disney Richard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, : MIT Press, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (356 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.26 |
Soggetto topico |
Aging - Economic aspects
Older people - Economic conditions Age distribution (Demography) Old age pensions |
Soggetto non controllato | ECONOMICS/Public Economics |
ISBN |
0-262-27177-X
0-585-03096-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778635903321 |
Disney Richard
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Children and pensions / / Alessandro Cigno and Martin Werding |
Autore | Cigno Alessandro |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 |
Descrizione fisica | xxiii, 204 p |
Disciplina | 331.25/2 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WerdingMartin |
Collana | CESifo book series |
Soggetto topico |
Family allowances
Social security Family demography - Economic aspects Child welfare |
Soggetto non controllato |
ECONOMICS/Public Economics
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Public Policy & Law |
ISBN |
0-262-30720-0
1-282-09919-1 9786612099199 0-262-27034-X 1-4356-0503-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777460803321 |
Cigno Alessandro
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Confidence games : lawyers, accountants, and the tax shelter industry / / Tanina Rostain and Milton C. Regan, Jr |
Autore | Rostain Tanina |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA : , : MIT Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (421 p.) |
Disciplina | 336.2/06 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ReganMilton C |
Soggetto topico |
Tax shelters - United States - History
Tax shelters - Law and legislation - United States - History Corporations - Taxation - United States - History Taxation - Moral and ethical aspects - United States - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Public Policy & Law
ECONOMICS/Finance ECONOMICS/Public Economics |
ISBN |
0-262-32317-6
0-262-52977-7 0-262-32316-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments and Note on Sources; Introduction; Part I Shelters Rising; 1 The IRS under Siege; 2 Why Tax Shelters Matter; 3 Gimme Shelters; Part II Accounting Firms; 4 The Skunk Works; 5 Watson's Choice; 6 Accounting for Fraud; 7 Dances with Wolves; Part III Law Firms; 8 The Texas Juggernaut; 9 Lowering the Bar; Part IV The Reckoning; 10 Turning the Tide; 11 The Government Closes In; 12 Endgame: KPMG and Jenkens; Conclusion; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790917203321 |
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Double dividend : environmental taxes and fiscal reform in the United States / / Dale W. Jorgenson, Richard Goettle, Mun S. Ho, Peter Wilcoxen |
Autore | Jorgenson Dale W (Dale Weldeau), <1933-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (639 p.) |
Disciplina | 336.2/7833370973 |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental impact charges - United States
Taxation - United States Fiscal policy - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
ECONOMICS/Environmental Economics
ECONOMICS/Public Economics |
ISBN |
0-262-31857-1
0-262-31856-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Designing energy and environmental policies -- Structure of the intertemporal general equilibrium model -- Modeling consumer behavior -- Notes -- Index. |
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Jorgenson Dale W (Dale Weldeau), <1933->
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The economics of infrastructure provisioning : the changing role of the state / / edited by Arnold Picot, Massimo Florio, Nico Grove and Johann Kranz |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (527 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.6 |
Altri autori (Persone) | PicotArnold |
Collana | CESifo Seminar Series |
Soggetto topico |
Infrastructure (Economics) - Government policy
Public goods Public works |
Soggetto non controllato | ECONOMICS/Public Economics |
ISBN | 0-262-33083-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Series Foreword; I Introduction; 1 Public Infrastructure Provisioning; 2 Actors and Innovations in the Evolution of Infrastructure Services; II Investment, Growth, Policy Issues; 3 Population Density, Optimal Infrastructure, and Economic Growth; 4 Infrastructure Funding and Financing; 5 On the Financial Structure and the Contractual Length of Public-Private Partnerships; 6 Infrastructure Investment in Network Industries; 7 Infrastructure-Output Nexus; 8 Connecting People-An Evolutionary Perspective on Infraculture; III Sector: Transport
9 Policy Lessons from the Recent Literature on Transport Infrastructure Development10 Effects of Uncertainty and Opportunistic Renegotiations on Bidding Behavior; 11 Electoral Cycles and Renegotiation of Transport Infrastructure Concession Contracts; 12 Strengthening Transport Infrastructure Connectivity Policies for Inclusive and Sustainable Asia; IV Sectors: Energy, Telecommunication, Water; 13 ""New"" Models of Public Ownership in Energy; 14 Network Regulation through Ownership Structure; 15 Fixed Broadband and Economic Growth; 16 Providing and Financing a Municipal Infrastructure ContributorsIndex |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797919703321 |
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , [2015] | ||
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From optimal tax theory to tax policy : retrospective and prospective views / / Robin Boadway |
Autore | Boadway Robin W. <1943-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
Disciplina | 336.2001 |
Collana | Munich lectures in economics |
Soggetto topico |
Taxation
Fiscal policy |
Soggetto non controllato | ECONOMICS/Public Economics |
ISBN |
0-262-30093-1
1-280-49903-6 9786613594266 0-262-30168-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- From tax theory to policy : an overview -- Landmarks of optimal tax theory -- The evolution of policy and advice -- Challenges for the theory of tax policy -- Commitment -- Heterogeneity of individual utility functions -- Behavioral issues -- Responsibility and compensation -- Political economy -- Optimal analysis versus reform analysis -- Summary of lessons for tax policy -- Policy lessons from optimal tax theory -- Uniformity of commodity taxes -- The Corlett-Hague theorem -- The Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem -- Production efficiency : implications and caveats -- Capital taxation and the personal tax base -- Linear taxation in a dynamic setting -- Nonlinear taxation in a dynamic setting -- The issue of progressivity -- Asymmetric information and market failure -- Policy lessons from normative analysis -- Relaxing the second-best constraints -- The use of supplementary policy instruments -- Making use of, and acquiring, more information -- Conclusions -- Challenges for second-best analysis -- Fundamentals of the standard approach -- The commitment issue -- Heterogeneous preferences and utility -- Behavioral issues -- Political economy -- Concluding comments. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779072703321 |
Boadway Robin W. <1943->
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Fundamental tax reform : issues, choices, and implications / / edited by John W. Diamond and George R. Zodrow |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (567 p.) |
Disciplina | 336.2/050973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
DiamondJohn W
ZodrowGeorge R |
Soggetto topico |
Taxation - United States
Corporations - Taxation - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
ECONOMICS/Public Economics
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Public Policy & Law |
ISBN |
1-282-09956-6
9786612099564 0-262-27170-2 1-4356-4348-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword by James A. Baker III; Preface; Introduction: Is It Time for Fundamental Tax Reform?; I Overviews; 1 Tax Reform in the Twenty-first Century; 2 Simplifying Assumptions: How Might the Politics of Consumption Tax Reform Affect (Impair) the End Product?; II Business Issues; 3 Is Tax Reform Good for Business? Is a Pro-business Tax Policy Good for America?; 4 Taxation and Business Behavior: A Review of the Recent Literature; 5 Consumption Tax Reform: Changes in Business Equity and Housing Prices; III International Business Issues
6 Corporation Tax Incidence: Reflections on What Is Known, Unknown, and Unknowable7 Corporate Taxes in the World Economy: Reforming the Taxation of Cross-border Income; IV Individual Issues; 8 Evidence of Tax-Induced Individual Behavioral Responses; 9 Comparing Average and Marginal Tax Rates under the FairTax and the Current System of Federal Taxation; 10 Behavioral Economics and Fundamental Tax Reform; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781926403321 |
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Living standards and the wealth of nations : successes and failures in real convergence / / edited by Leszek Balcerowicz and Stanley Fischer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (443 p.) |
Disciplina | 339.4/2 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BalcerowiczLeszek
FischerStanley |
Soggetto topico |
Economic development
Convergence (Economics) Cost and standard of living Wealth |
Soggetto non controllato |
ECONOMICS/Public Economics
ECONOMICS/Trade & Development |
ISBN |
1-282-09807-1
9786612098079 0-262-26761-6 1-4294-7720-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contributors; I Some General Remarks on the Process of Catching Up; Introduction and Summary; 1 What a Country Must Do to Catch Up to the Industrial Leaders; 2 Elections, Political Checks and Balances, and Growth; II Case Studies of Successes and Failures in Catching Up; 3 The Nordic Countries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Economic Growth in a Comparative Perspective; 4 The Experimentalist-Convergence Debate on Interpreting China's Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Perspective; 5 Successes and Failures in Real Convergence: The Case of Chile
6 Economic Resurgence in the Commonwealth of Independent StatesIII Consequences of Accession to the European Union: Case Studies; 7 Spain in the EU: The Key Issues; 8 The Spanish Experience in the European Union; 9 Portugal's Convergence Process: Lessons for Accession Countries; 10 Greece: The Long Process of Economic and Institutional Convergence; 11 The Convergence Experience of the Greek Economy in the EU: Lessons for the EU Accession Countries; 12 Real Convergence within the European Union: The Case of Ireland; 13 Irish Economic Development in an International Perspective IV EMU Entry and Economic Growth14 When Should the Central Europeans Join the EMU? Reconciling Real and Nominal Convergence; 15 Is Full Participation in the EMU Likely to Favor or Slow Real Convergence?; V Conclusion; 16 Concluding Comments; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777517103321 |
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Measuring happiness : the economics of well-being / / Joachim Weimann, Andreas Knabe, and Ronnie Schöb |
Autore | Weimann Joachim <1956-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
Disciplina | 306 |
Soggetto topico |
Quality of life - Economic aspects
Well-being - Economic aspects Happiness - Economic aspects Money - Psychological aspects Wealth - Psychological aspects Economics - Psychological aspects |
Soggetto non controllato | ECONOMICS/Public Economics |
ISBN |
0-262-32372-9
0-262-52976-9 0-262-32371-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Preface; I The Economics of Happiness and Its Most Important Results; 1 The End of Materialism?; 2 Economists' Way of Thinking: "More Is Better Than Less"; 3 The Easterlin Attack; 4 If Money Doesn't Make Us Happy, What Then?; 5 The Economic Determinants of Happiness; 6 What Is to Be Done If Money Doesn't Make Us Happy?; II What Is Happiness Research Telling Us?; 7 Are We Measuring Correctly?; 8 How Much Truth Is There in the Easterlin Paradox?; 9 Unemployed and Happy?!; 10 The Importance of Relative Position; 11 Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788025303321 |
Weimann Joachim <1956->
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The price of smoking / / Frank A. Sloan [and others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.29/6 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SloanFrank A |
Soggetto topico |
Smoking - United States - Costs
Smoking - Health aspects - United States Smoking - Economic aspects - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General
ECONOMICS/Political Economy ECONOMICS/Public Economics |
ISBN |
0-262-25056-X
1-282-09837-3 9786612098376 0-262-28379-4 1-4237-9659-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Tabulating the Cost of Smoking; 2 Approaches for Assessing the Cost of Smoking; 3 What We Know and Don't Know about the Cost of Smoking; 4 Effects of Smoking on Mortality; 5 How Much Does Smoking Increase Outlays for Personal Health Care?; 6 Effects of Smoking on Social Security; 7 Private Pensions: Do the Cross-Subsidies Mirror Those for Social Security?; 8 Do Nonsmokers Cross- Subsidize Smokers in the Market for Life Insurance?; 9 Effects of Smoking on Morbidity, Disability, and Work Loss; 10 Health Effects of Smoking on Others; 11 Summing Up; Notes; References
Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777417403321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2004 | ||
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