Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation

by James Mirrlees

Overview

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 This volume brings together for the first time published and unpublished seminal work on these key areas, providing an essential overview to much of his life's work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198295211
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2006
Pages:	584
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.20(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Cambridge University

Table of Contents

Part 1: Welfare EconomicsChapter 1: Information and IncentivesChapter 2: Notes on Welfare EconomicsChapter 3: The Desirability of Natural Resource DepletionChapter 4: The Economic Uses of UtilitarianismChapter 5: Welfare Economics and Economies of ScalePart 2: Tax TheoryChapter 6: An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income TaxationChapter 7: On Producer TaxationChapter 8: The Optimum TownChapter 9: Optimal Tax Theory: A SynthesisChapter 10: The Theory of Optimum TaxationChapter 11: Migration and Optimal Income TaxesChapter 12: Taxing Uncertain IncomesPart 3: Public ExpenditureChapter 13: Arguments for Public ExpenditureChapter 14: Optimal Taxation and Government FinancePart 4: Contract TheoryChapter 15: The Optimal Structure of Incentives and Authority within an OrganizationChapter 16: The Theory of Moral Hazard and Unobserved BehaviourChapter 17: The Implications of Moral Hazard for Optimal InsurancePart 5: Growth TheoryChapter 18: The Dynamic Nonsubstitution TheoremChapter 19: Agreeable PlansChapter 20: Fairly Good PlansChapter 21: Optimum Saving with Economies of ScalePart 6: Development EconomicsChapter 22: A Pure Theory of Underdeveloped Economies, using a Relationship between Consumption and ProductivityChapter 23: Project Appraisal Planning Twenty Years on