This highly topical book explores key issues in evaluating the long-run implications of population ageing for pensions, taxation, intergenerational equity and social welfare. Societies face long-term phenomena, such as demographic change and climate change that impose costs and benefits far into the future. These present challenges for policymakers in planning intertemporal consumption paths that balance the goals of efficiency and equity. An exploration of these issues, with respect to population ageing in particular, is the primary motivation for this book. John Creedy and Ross Guest...

This text offers a number of broad introductory surveys in the areas of nonlinear modelling, labour economics and the economics analysis of exchange. The early chapters provide an introduction to the analysis of "chaos and strange attractors" and the use of the flexible, generalized exponential family of frequency distributions in ananlysing both time series and cross-sectional destributions. The volume then provides synthese of the theories of internal labour markets, trade union bargaining and population ageing and its implications. It goes on to survey a range of topics in the broad area...

George Warde Norman was a Director of the Bank of England from 1821 to 1872, a key figure behind the Bank Charter Act of 1844, and one of the founders of the Political Economy Club. In 1821 G.W. Norman began an essay on taxation as part of the utilitarian programme. His vision was of increased human happiness through a wholesale reform of the revenue system founded upon direct taxation in the form of a comprehensive property tax. He continued to work on the essay over many years, never losing his faith in the utilitarian ideal or his belief in the property tax solution as the key to fiscal...

This is the first English translation of the author's text on economic theory. The book contains original analysis of neoclassic economics. This title is part of the Classics in the History of Economics series, edited by Mark Blaugh and is a translation from German of the author's book Mathemarische Begrundung der Volkswirtschaftslehre.

Examining alternative tax and transfer systems, this volume concentrates on modelling tax structures and their implications for social welfare, income distribution and tax progressivity, in both partial and general equilibrium contexts. Numerical examples and diagrams are utilized.

This is an introduction to general equilibrium analysis and asociated welfare economics, in which the author develops a two sector model using diagrams and simple mathematics. The analysis of exchange general and equilibrium supply and demand curves are among the subjects discussed.