Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation

Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation

By James A. Mirrlees
Oxford University Press March 2006

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780199261819
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
March 2006
Format
Paperback , 578 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

  • Winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences
  • Key contributions to welfare, development, and public sector economics
  • Includes previously unpublished material

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.

Readership: Academic and professional economists, particularly those interested in welfare, development, and public sector economics.

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

James A. Mirrlees, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge

Reviews

"James Mirrlees' special gift is to bring new perspectives to the understanding of major economic issues, economic growth and the choice of taxes. The importance of asymmetric information in the optimality of taxes was one of his greatest contributions, the study of different aspects of the role of increasing returns in economic growth another. Drawing these contributions, scattered over many journals, into a single volume will remind of the power of Mirrlees's analysis and make reference that much easier. " - Kenneth J. Arrow, Nobel Laureate and Professor Emeritus of Economics, Stanford University

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