From optimal tax theory to tax policy retrospective and prospective views /

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Main Author: Boadway, Robin W., 1943-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.
Series:Munich lectures in economics.
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245 1 0 |a From optimal tax theory to tax policy  |h [electronic resource] :  |b retrospective and prospective views /  |c Robin Boadway. 
260 |a Cambridge, Mass. :  |b MIT Press,  |c 2012. 
300 |a vi, 290 p. :  |b ill. 
490 1 |a Munich lectures in economics 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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650 0 |a Fiscal policy. 
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