Dispelling Fiscal Illusions
Dispelling Fiscal Illusions

Author: Mr.Timothy Irwin

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2016-08-16

Total Pages: 17

ISBN-13: 1475525680

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When rights and obligations are not recognized as assets and liabilities on a government’s balance sheet, the government’s deficit can be reduced by selling off-balance-sheet assets or incurring off-balance-sheet liabilities. This paper examines how much progress has been made in recognizing assets and liabilities and thus dispelling the fiscal illusions that such transactions create. Looking at the accounts, government-finance statistics, and long-term fiscal projections produced in 28 advanced economies in the period since 2003, it finds good progress in the recognition of some assets and liabilities, such as accounts payable and simple financial assets, but much less in others, such as civil-service pensions.

The Community Budget for an Economic and Monetary Union
The Community Budget for an Economic and Monetary Union

Author: P. Spahn

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1993-06-07

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0230372678

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Maastricht will induce changes to the EC budget the various dimensions of which are explored in this volume. Based on the theory of fiscal federalism the author discusses important aspects of multilayer government finance for existing federations - Australia, Germany, Switzerland and the USA. He sketches the effects of an Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) onto the Community budget, and concludes with a systematic treatment of revenue instruments for its future financing

Reforming the State
Reforming the State

Author: János Kornai

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-01-15

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780521774888

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The essays in this volume, first published in 2001, examine fiscal policy-making and providing for social welfare in post-socialist countries.

Reforming Local Government
Reforming Local Government

Author: Joseph Drew

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-06-23

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9811565031

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This book is a bold prescription for local government reform that moves well beyond the old arguments regarding consolidations (also referred to as amalgamations) and co-operation (sometimes referred to as shared services) to paint a picture of an efficient, effective tier of government that strikes a balance between the right of persons to pursue their existential ends and the need to promote the common good. The book presents a system of local government that balances human dignity with the common good, restrains Leviathan, provides a voice for the disenfranchised (and even the disinterested), and delivers goods and services efficiently and effectively. Ironically, what is often argued to be the weakness of local government in many jurisdictions – the fact that it is merely a creature of statute – is also the best hope we have of making the oft cited rhetoric about how ‘local government is the closest to the people that serves the people best’ become reality.

Political Philosophy and Taxation
Political Philosophy and Taxation

Author: Robert F. van Brederode

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-06-02

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 9811910928

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This book explores how taxation is related to the role of the state and its relationship with its constituents, the concept of private property rights, the concepts of societal fairness and justice, and the battle between the individual and the collective. This book appeals to students and scholars who want to know how philosophers in the past and present think about taxation, and how their thinking has developed through cross-influencing. There exists no comprehensive study providing such an overview. This book is a foundational study on the philosophical justification of taxation (qualitative aspect) and the normative qualifications required of tax law to constitute tax that is just and fair (distributive or quantitative aspect). The latter includes evaluation of what type of tax is morally correct or acceptable to realize distributive justice. This book covers periods from the Enlightenment era until the present. The philosophers are grouped together in schools of thought and each chapter except for chapter 1 and chapter 13, are is dedicated to a specific philosophical school. Moreover, this book aims to provide an overview of each school of thinking and the individual philosophers, including placing them in the context of their times. The book has particular importance as the study of taxation is an underdeveloped area of political and legal philosophy.

Public Finance in Democratic Process
Public Finance in Democratic Process

Author: James M. Buchanan

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780807841907

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Recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in economics, James Buchanan has won international recognition for his pioneering role in the development of public-choice theory. Among his works that the prize committee specifically cited was Public Finance in Democratic Process, which first appeared in 1967. As James C. Miller, director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, notes in his foreword, "This book is perhaps the best compact exposition of Buchanan's theory of public choice."

The National Element in the Development of Fiscal Theory
The National Element in the Development of Fiscal Theory

Author: O. Kayaalp

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-01-20

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1403938970

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Price theory has provided solutions to myriad problems affecting society without invoking any precepts beyond those encapsulated in the standard economic postulate. Fiscal theory, meanwhile, has been closely attentive to the political, sociological and historical circumstances that bear upon the fiscal act. This methodological duality has resulted in the development of fiscal theory in line with the political culture espoused by its originator, usually the one prevailing at home. Thus emerges the need for an analysis of the evolution of fiscal thought along national lines.

Taxation
Taxation

Author: Simon James

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780415188029

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Welfare, Choice and Solidarity in Transition
Welfare, Choice and Solidarity in Transition

Author: János Kornai

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-05-31

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1139428640

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Reform of the welfare sector is an important yet difficult challenge for all countries in transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented democracies. Here a scholar of the economics of socialism and post-socialist transition and a health economist take on this challenge. This 2001 book offers health sector reform recommendations for ten countries of Eastern Europe, drawn consistently from a set of explicit guiding principles. After discussing sector-specific characteristics, lessons of international experience, and the main set of initial conditions, the authors advocate reforms based on organized public financing for basic care, private financing for supplementary care, pluralistic delivery of services, and managed competition. Policymakers need to achieve a balance, both assuring social solidarity through universal access to basic health services and expanding individual choice and responsibility through voluntary supplemental insurance. The authors also consider the problems that undermine effectiveness of market-based competition in the health sector.

The Growth of American Government
The Growth of American Government

Author: Ballard C. Campbell

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2014-12-29

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0253014271

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How and why has government gotten bigger? “Should be a compulsory assignment for any seminar on modern political culture.” —The Journal of American History American government has evolved over the generations since the mid-nineteenth century. The changing character of these institutions is a critical part of the history of the United States. This engaging survey focuses on the evolution of public policy and its relationship to the constitutional and political structure of government at the federal, state, and local levels. A new chapter in this revised and updated edition also examines the debate about “big government” in recent decades. “A marvelous multidisciplinary synthesis that builds on the findings of historians of national, state, and local government, along with those of economists and political scientists, to provide a coherent account of the rise of modern American governing structures.” —Journal of Interdisciplinary History