This volume explores the foundations of trust, and whether social and political trust have common roots. Contributions by noted scholars examine how we measure trust, the cultural and social psychological roots of trust, the foundations of political trust, and how trust concerns the law, the economy, elections, international relations, corruption, and cooperation, among myriad societal factors. The rich assortment of essays on these themes addresses questions such as: How does national identity shape trust, and how does trust form in developing countries and in new democracies? Are minority groups less trusting than the dominant group in a society? Do immigrants adapt to the trust levels of their host countries? Does group interaction build trust? Does the welfare state promote trust and, in turn, does trust lead to greater well-being and to better health outcomes? The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust considers these and other questions of critical importance for current scholarly investigations of trust.
The land value tax is the focus of this Policy Focus Report, Assessing the Theory and Practice of Land Value Taxation. A concept dating back to Henry George, the land value tax is a variant of the property tax that imposes a higher tax rate on land than on improvements, or taxes only the land value. Many other types of changes in property tax policy, such as assessment freezes or limitations, have undesirable side effects, including unequal treatment of similarly situated taxpayers and distortion of economic incentives. The land value tax can enhance both the fairness and the efficiency of property tax collection, with few undesirable effects; land is effectively in fixed supply, so an increase in the tax rate on land value will raise revenue without distorting the incentives for owners to invest in and use their land. A land value tax has also been seen as a way to combat urban sprawl by encouraging density and infill development. Authors Richard F. Dye and Richard W. England examine the experience of those who have implemented the land value tax -- more than 30 countries around the world, and in the United States, several municipalities dating back to 1913, when the Pennsylvania legislature permitted Pittsburgh and Scranton to tax land values at a higher rate than building values. A 1951 statute gave smaller Pennsylvania cities the same option to enact a two-rate property tax, a variation of the land value tax. About 15 communities currently use this type of tax program, while others tried and rescinded it. Hawaii also has experience with two-rate taxation, and Virginia and Connecticut have authorized municipalities to choose a two-rate property tax. The land value tax has been subjected to studies comparing jurisdictions with and without it, and to legal challenges. A land value tax also raises administrative issues, particularly in the area of property tax assessments. Land value taxation is an attractive alternative to the traditional property tax, especially to much more problematic types of property tax measures such as assessment limitations, the authors conclude. A land value tax is best implemented if local officials use best assessing practices to keep land and improvement values up to date; phase in dual tax rates over several years; and include a tax credit feature in those communities where land-rich but income-poor citizens might suffer from land value taxation.
This publication addresses the role of national systems of IP in the socio-economic development of emerging countries, notably through their impact on innovation.
Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies.
This book consists of three sections: the first section is the theory system of Unified Economics that I proposed as a pioneer. This theory system currently contains a total of about 30 theories. Unified economics unified microeconomics, medium-sized economics and macroeconomics together. Unified economics achieves the touchability and calculability of economic reality as advocated by Beizhan school of thought. Unified economics analyzed various properties of regional economy comprehensively, and established a more complete and national economic evaluation system with uniqueness. The second section mainly includes my elaboration on the election finance system. The third section mainly includes my elaborations on other economic issues, such as: currency finance economy, real estate economy, and so on. I hope that my economic theories and thoughts can provide strong guidance for the economic development of all countries in the world, and provide strong theoretical supports for the realization of equitable development, common development and sustainable development in the world. Many theories and thoughts in this book are brand new, the innovative concepts included inside include: economic bubble volume and economic bubble degree, economic wheel, economic potential energy, sentinel value, internationalization index of economic wheel, economic tightness degree, market demand degree and market demand volume, economic development degree, market transformation rate, market inventory rate/market inventory volume/monetized inventory volume, management team size social ratio, management team size employment ratio, achievement management consumption ratio, cost management consumption ratio, the per capita management cost of the management team, management team per capita profit value of public management, economic green potential energy, environmental economic cost, economic equality degree, economic equality fall, economic monopoly degree, economic monopoly volume, the advantages of regional economy, regional economic competitiveness, benefit acquiring capability, adequacy degree, adequacy volume, advantage set and advantage sequence, the livelihood of people, interest acquisition property of people's livelihood, interest contribution property of people's livelihood, interest acquisition property of finance, interest contribution property of finance, economic efficiency, marketized economic efficiency, environmental production cost ratio, integrated cost, marketized production value, green production value, marketized production value ratio, green production value ratio, marketized GDP, regional economic participation degree, three forms of currency (productive currency, consumption currency and silent currency), regional currency total, regional pure currency total and regional circulation currency total, productive currency ratio, consumption currency ratio and silent currency ratio, the expired productive currency (expired currency), the lost productive currency (lost currency), double-side currency expiration ratio, double-side currency lost ratio, double-side currency steering ratio, international market dependence degree, international supply dependence degree, economic concentration degree (product concentration degree, market concentration degree, industry concentration degree), overall competitiveness of regional economy (core competitiveness, auxiliary competitiveness, supportive competitiveness of regional economy), core national economic accounting system, Beizhan double accounting system of regional economy, declaration form of personal environmental protection, declaration form of community environmental protection, declaration form of enterprise/organization environmental protection, environmental balance sheet, economic green potential energy balance sheet, actual production capacity, production capacity, excessive production capacity (excessive capacity), production capacity realization ratio, excessive production capacity ratio, innovation capability and innovation efficiency, innovation transformation capability, innovation transformation efficiency, innovation capability ratio, innovation transformation capability ratio, etc.. This book is a better reading to open up thoughts for those who are interested in economic research, economic management, finance management, currency finance economic management, real estate economic management, and so on. It also has more significance for those who want to engage in or who are engaged in the work of economic research, government, economic management, currency finance economic management and real estate economic management. Unified Economics will be the theoretical foundation of the economic structure of we all owned the spacecraft sailing in the space. In this second edition, two more chapters are added: one chapter is about production capacity indicator system of regional economy; one chapter is about innovation property and indicator system of regional economy, so as to make the content of Unified Economics more rich and complete.
