Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-926181-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 584 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 866 g

Nobel Prize-winning economist James Mirrlees is one of the world's leading figures in welfare, development, and public sector economics. This volume brings together for the first time twenty-three of his seminal papers on welfare economics, tax theory, public expenditure, contract theory, growth theory, and development economics.

Academic and professional economists, particularly those interested in welfare, development, and public sector economics, will find this collection invaluable.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mirrlees, James A.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Gesundheitsökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Öffentliche Finanzwirtschaft, Besteuerung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftswachstum
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Mikroökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Welfare Economics

- 1: Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks

- 2: Notes on Welfare Economics, Information, and Uncertainty

- 3: with John A. Kay: The Desirability of Natural Resource Depletion

- 4: The Economic Uses of Utilitarianism

- 5: Welfare Economics and Economies of Scale

- Part II: Tax Theory

- 6: An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation

- 7: On Producer Taxation

- 8: The Optimum Town

- 9: Population Policy and the Taxation of Family Size

- 10: Optimal Tax Theory: A Synthesis

- 11: The Theory of Optimal Taxation

- 12: Migration and Optimal Income Taxes

- 13: Taxing Uncertain Incomes

- Part III: Public Expenditure

- 14: Arguments for Public Expenditure

- 15: Optimal Taxation and Government Finance

- Part IV: Contract Theory

- 16: The Optimal Structure of Incentives and Authority within an Organization

- 17: The Theory of Moral Hazard and Unobservable Behaviour: Part I

- Part V: Growth Theory

- 18: The Dynamic Nonsubstitution Theorem

- 19: with Peter J. Hammond: Agreeable Plans

- 20: With Avinash Dixit and Nicholas Stern: Fairly Good Plans

- 21: Optimum Saving with Economies of Scale

- Part VI: Development Economics

- 22: A Pure Theory of Underdeveloped Economies

- 23: With Ian Little: Project Appraisal and Planning Twenty Years On: Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

James A. Mirrlees is Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College. He was previously Edgeworth Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford (1968-95). In 1996 he won the Nobel Prize for Economics for fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information. His research interests are optimal income taxation; policy implications of imperfect rationality; and principal/agent situations with multidimensional choice variables.