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  • Public Debt

    An Illusion of Democratic Political Economy

    Series series New Thinking in Political Economy series
    Over the past few decades, economists have witnessed with growing uneasiness their failure to explain the ballooning of public debt in most countries. Using methodological individualism and micro-economics, this book overcomes flaws inherent in the standard macro approach, according to which governments manipulate public debt to promote systemic stability. This unique analysis is grounded in the ... Read more

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    Where is Alberta's Wealth Going?

    Alberta’s most insightful political commentator is back with another essential book. Kevin Taft, together with economists Mel McMillan and Junaid Jahangir, follows the money to uncover why Alberta — one of the richest places on earth — still talks poor when it comes to public services.Do we really spend more than we can afford, more than we can sustain, on health care? On education? Why doesn’t ... Read more

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  • The Money Bomb

    'The Money Bomb' was launched on the morning of the Chancellor's Budget in April 1983 and although it was featured in the 1st Edition of the London Evening Standard, by the time the second edition was on the streets, the article on the 'Money Bomb' had been pulled. Similarly, orders taken earlier that day from retailers were mysteriously then cancelled.Clearly 'The Money Bomb' had hit a raw nerve ... Read more

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  • Fear City

    New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

    PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTAn epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster—and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world todayWhen the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country's largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the ... Read more

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  • Optimal Redistributive Taxation

    by Matti Tuomala ...
    Tax systems raise large amounts of revenue for funding public sector's activities, and tax/transfer policy, together with public provision of education, health care, and social services, play a crucial role in treating the symptoms and the causes of poverty. The normative analysis is crucial for tax/transfer design because it makes it possible to assess separately how changes in the redistributive ... Read more

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  • Tax Management and Tax Evasion

    Series Book 4 - New Horizons in Management Sciences
    Tax management and tax evasion represent an intrinsic element of economic turnover, an area of interest both to the institutional and to the real spheres of national economy. These problems, beyond any doubt, should become the focus of interest for all states having a common market, e.g. the European Union, or the countries which have not introduced the universally binding and which are highly ... Read more

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  • Alternative Perspectives of a Good Society

    by J. Marangos ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    As a collection of alternative views on societies, methodologies, policies and assessment of the current elements of the society, Alternative Perspectives on a Good Society brings together different authors answering different questions all within the context of visions of a good society. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Tax Law Design and Drafting, Volume 2

    A comprehensive guide to income tax legislation, this book is the second of two volumes dealing with tax legislation from a comparative law perspective. Distilled from the IMF Legal Department's extensive experience, the book covers a wide range of issues in both domestic and international taxation. It also includes the most extensive bibliography currently available of the national tax laws of ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • Looking for Consensus

    Civil Society, Social Movements and Crises for Public Management

    Edited by John Diamond, Joyce Liddle ...
    Series Book 2 - Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management
    This volume reflects on the global dimension of the 2008 banking and financial crisis and point to a bigger and deeper crisis of authority and legitimacy for public managers. The peak of the crisis might be passing but the crisis for civil society and civic institutions of governance and leadership is far from over. The long term implications of these crises for governance, political and civic ... Read more

    $136.19 USD

  • Securitization: Past, Present and Future

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book aims to explore if and how securitization changed financial intermediation and lending behaviour by reviewing the pre- and post-financial crisis theoretical and empirical literature. The book’s distinctive feature is bringing the growing post-crisis empirical evidence to the attention of a wider audience by critically appraising it against pre-crisis arguments. With its thought-provoking ... Read more

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  • The New Public Leadership Challenge

    Edited by S. Brookes, K. Grint ...
    Drawn from the results of five seminars this unique book looks at the four areas of: public sector reform; essential features for public leaders; public leadership in action; and the outline of a public leadership approach for the future. It seeks to give public leadership a firm foothold within the study of leadership in general. ... Read more

    $116.09 USD