Peasants Versus City-Dwellers

Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-925357-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 371 g

In this book Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and co-author Raaj Sah address one of development's major issues. During the early phases of economic development, there are often serious conflicts between the interests of town and country. The Corn Law Debate in England, the economic conflicts between the North and the South prior to the US Civil War, and the Soviet Industrialization Debate are among the historical examples.

Most of today's countries face town versus country tensions of increasing severity, including such issues as who should pay how much in taxes, who should get how much in subsidies, and what forms the taxes and subsidies should take. This volume analyses these tensions and issues, taking into account the great diversity of institutions and economic environments observed in different developing countries.

While dealing primarily with today's developing countries, the book also sheds some new light on some of the historical controversies. Each chapter contains a non-technical statement of the problems at hand and a summary of the analysis. The book will be of interest to public finance economists, and practitioners and researchers of economic development, as well as to economic historians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sah, Raaj K.

Stiglitz, Joseph E.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Öffentliche Finanzwirtschaft, Besteuerung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Wirtschaftsgeographie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- I. An Introduction to Issues and Methodology

- 2: The Objectives and Instruments of Government Policy and the Structure of the Economy in LDCs

- 3: An Approach to Applied Welfare Economics

- II. Inter-Sectoral Taxation Policies

- 5: The Price Scissors in Open Economies

- 6: The Price Scissors in Closed and Partially Closed Socialist Economies

- 7: The Soviet Industrialization Debate and Collectivization

- III. The Rural Sector

- 9: Taxes and Subsidies on Different Goods in the Rural Sector

- IV. The Urban Sector

- 11: Some Aspects of the Wage-Productivity Hypothesis that are Relevant for Taxation Analysis

- 12: Taxes and Subsidies on Different Goods in the Urban Sector

- 13: Tax Policy in the Presence of Migration and Urban Unemployment

- 14: Taxation in the Urban Sector: Some Aspects of the Underlying Model

- 15: The Social Cost of Labour

- 16: Concluding Remarks

Über Autor(innen)

Raaj K. Sah is Professor of Public Policy, University of Chicago.

Joseph E. Stiglitz is Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001.