Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation

ISBN-13: 9780198295211 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 592 str.

James A. Mirrlees

Opis

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 This volume brings together for the first time published and unpublished seminal work on these key areas, providing an essential overview to much of his life's work.

Recenzje

Not only does this book belong on the shelves of every economist, also the contents of the papers belong in the undersatnding of every economist.

O autorze

James A. Mirrlees is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College. He was previously Edgeworth Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford (1968-95). In 1996 he won the Nobel Prize for Economics for fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information. His research interests are optimal income taxation; policy implications of imperfect rationality; and principal/agent situations with multidimensional choice variables.