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Mirrlees James A.

Welfare, incentives, and taxation / James A. Mirrlees - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xii, 565 p. ; 22 cm.

Part I: Welfare Economics;
1:Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks;
2:Notes on Welfare Economics, Information, and Uncertainty;
3:The Desirability of Natural Resource Depletion, with John A. Kay;
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:Agreeable Plans, with Peter J. Hammond;
20:Fairly Good Plans, With Avinash Dixit and Nicholas Stern;
21:Optimum Saving with Economies of Scale;

Part VI: Development Economics;
22:A Pure Theory of Underdeveloped Economies;
23:Project Appraisal and Planning Twenty Years On: Appendix, With Ian Little.


ISBN: 9780195686500 (hbk)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Welfare Economics - Finance - Public
Welfare Economics - Mathematical Models
Development Economics

Dewey Class. No.: 330.1 MIR