Public Finance

The year 1973 marked a turning point, as Peterson makes clear in this carefully documented book. When several key economic indicators changed cours...

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) can be effective tools for national resources revenue management. These state-owned investments, funded by commodity ...

'A brief but crucially important book'Marcus ChownIn The Joy of Tax, tax campaigner Richard Murphy challenges almost every idea you have about tax....

The only single-source guide to understanding, using, adapting, and designing state-of-the-art agent-based modelling of tax evasion A computational...

In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provo...

Since it was first published Public Sector Economics has become the most widely adopted undergraduate textbook in its field. Major revisions have b...

Volume 2 of Princeton University studies in papyrology. Originally published in 1938. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-deman...

In 1918, the Soviet revolutionary government repudiated the Tsarist regime’s sovereign debt, triggering one of the biggest sovereign defaults ever....

The capture of the French king John II at Poitiers in 1356 marked the end of royal taxation as a temporary, wartime expedient and its beginning as ...

The capture of the French king John II at Poitiers in 1356 marked the end of royal taxation as a temporary, wartime expedient and its beginning as ...

For effective program evaluation, it is necessary to specify a counterfactual state, i.e., what would have happened without the program. Convention...

Governments often use direct subsidies or tax credits to encourage investment and promote economic growth and other development objectives. Properl...

This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to incom...

The goal of this edited volume is to take a hard, objective look at the many different aspects of taxing the hard-to-tax, as well as the many diffe...

Cut your tax bill down to size with year-round tips and tricks Taxes For Dummies is the antidote to the annual headache that is the U.S. tax system...