Modern Fiscal Issues : : Essays in Honour of Carl S. Shoup / / ed. by Richard Bird, John Head.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bird, Richard M.,; Dosser, Douglas,; Due, John F.,; Fitch, Lyle C.,; Gillim, Marion Hamilton,; Harriss, C. Lowell,; Hartle, Douglas G.,; Head, John G.,; Macaulay, Hugh,; Musgrave, Peggy B.,; Musgrave, Richard A.,; Neumark, Fritz,; Oldman, Oliver,; Prest, A. R.,; Shibata, Hirofumi,; Surrey, Stanley S.,; Vickrey, William,; Wheatcroft, G.S.A.,; White, Anne,; White, Melvin,
• HerausgeberIn: Bird, Richard,; Head, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1972
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (362 p.)

The contributors to this work, all leading economists in their own right, are a few of the many colleagues, former students, and friends of Carl Shoup who have benefitted from his many years as a leading teacher and scholar of public finance. They dedicate this book to their mentor on the occasion o...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Contributors
• ONE. The theory of public finance
• 1. Public goods: the polar case
• 2. Joint production, externality, and public goods
• 3. The design of governments
• 4. Inter-nation equity
• 5. Customs unions, tax unions, development unions
• 6. Tax neutrality of instantaneous versus economic depreciation
• 7. Cumulative averaging after thirty years
• TWO. Public finance in practice
• 8. Government revenue, the national income, and all that
• 9. Scale and effectiveness of urban government: a commentary
• 10. Environmental quality, the market, and public finance
• 11. The German Stabilization Law: a new experiment
• 12. The logical approach of the new estate duty in Great Britain
• 13. Ecuador's value added tax: the first in the Andean Common Market
• 14. Technical assistance in taxation in developing countries
• 15. Property taxation
• 16. The evolution of sales taxation, 1915-1972
• Bibliography: works of Carl S. Shoup