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  • GDP, Growth, and Welfare

    In Pursuit of Economic Wellbeing

    by Vito Tanzi ...
    In the years following World War II, the main economic goal of countries, and the main standard by which economies were judged, was the performance of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which was defined and measured following rules created by statisticians and economists who had developed the official national accounts statistics, mostly in the 1930s. The pursuit of the growth of the GDP has ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Economics of Government

    Complexity and the Practice of Public Finance

    by Vito Tanzi ...
    Public finance is an important branch of economics. Over the years it has become more important, more controversial, and more complex. Much of the academic writing on it is highly theoretical, and it is often done by economists who have had little real world experience. Vito Tanzi has been continually engaged in this field for almost six decades, as a professor of public finance, a practitioner of ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Termites of the State

    Why Complexity Leads to Inequality

    by Vito Tanzi ...
    In Termites of the State, renowned public economist Vito Tanzi presents a sweeping account of the industrialized world's economic development during the twentieth century to today. In the tradition of grand economic histories, Tanzi connects the biggest issues of the modern world including extreme gaps in income distribution, increasing complexity of government actions and regulations, and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Monitoring the State or the Market

    From Laissez Faire to Market Fundamentalism

    by Vito Tanzi ...
    Many economists argue that economic analysis should avoid the distributional consequences of policies. In democratic countries, however, the political power of individuals inevitably reflects their wealth and income. You cannot have a democracy when income and wealth distributions are greatly uneven. Monitoring the State or the Market explains that absolute income equality is not consistent with a ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Fragile Futures

    The Uncertain Economics of Disasters, Pandemics, and Climate Change

    by Vito Tanzi ...
    This book revisits a distinction introduced in 1921 by economists Frank Knight and John Maynard Keynes: that between statistically predictable future events ('risks') and statistically unpredictable, uncertain events ('uncertainties'). Governments have generally ignored the latter, perceiving phenomena such as pandemics, natural disasters and climate change as uncontrollable Acts of God. As a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Ecology of Tax Systems

    Factors that Shape the Demand and Supply of Taxes

    by Vito Tanzi ...
    This groundbreaking book analyzes how the ecology of taxation is fundamental for the success or failure of tax systems. It specifically focuses on the role of the ecological environment on taxation; the factors that determine the ecology of taxation; and how the ecology of taxation has changed and may continue to evolve.Income taxes operate well in highly industrialized countries, characterized by ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Government versus Markets

    The Changing Economic Role of the State

    by Vito Tanzi ...
    Vito Tanzi offers a truly comprehensive treatment of the economic role of the state in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a historical and world perspective. The book addresses the fundamental question of what governments should do, or have attempted to do, in economic activities in past and recent periods. It also speculates on what they are likely or may be forced to do in future ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Charm of Latin America

    Economic and Cultural Impressions

    by Vito Tanzi ...
    Over the last four decades, Dr. Vito Tanzi traveled frequently to Latin America in his professional capacity as an economist working for the International Monetary Fund and for other international organizations. During many trips, he observed ongoing economic and political developments, but, was also fascinated by the culture, history, and beauty of the region.He believes that books written about ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Taxation in an Integrating World

    by Vito Tanzi ...
    Tanzi explores how foreign taxes on repatriated income should be treated; how profits, sales, and ownership of property should be allocated among countries; and to what degree various taxes should be coordinated.As global markets for goods, services and financial assets have become increasingly integrated, national governments no longer have as much control over economic markets. With the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Taxation in Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Vito Mr. Tanzi, M. Yücelik, Peter Mr. Griffith, Carlos Mr. Aguirre ...
    Series Book 8 - Occasional Papers
    This study indentifies some of the taxation problems most frequently encountered by Fund member countries in sub-Saharan Africa and seeks solutions that may be useful to either the region as a whole or to groups of countries in the region. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Reforming China's Public Finances

    Edited by Vito Mr. Tanzi, Qiang Gao, Ehtisham Mr. Ahmad ...
    The reform of fiscal relations between different levels of geovernment is crucial to the success of China's current structural transformation to a socialist market economy. The reform will profoundly affect macroeconomic stability, growth prospects , and the effectiveness of providing public services and interregional equity. In order to review international experience and to clearly identify the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Economic Policy and Equity

    Edited by Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Vito Mr. Tanzi, Ke-young Mr. Chu ...
    This book brings together the views not only of policymakers and academics but also of religious leaders and labor leaders from around the world- including the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Amartya Sen - who participated in an IMF conference on this topic. Contributors discuss the causes of growing inequality and the complex question of how to use policy to make economic systems more equitable ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD