The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics

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Presents a unified conceptual framework for analyzing taxation. This book contains an analysis that generates novel results, including some that overturn long-standing conventional wisdom. By applying this common methodology to disparate subjects, it produces significant cross-fertilization and yields solutions to previously intractable problems.

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"This is a very ambitious project which has the quality of proposing a unified view of all these topics. Moreover, on the various aspects of taxation, the reader will find an interesting critical survey and a valuable source of information about the literature and the pending questions."--Marc Fleurbaey, Social Choice and Welfare

Author Bio

Louis Kaplow is the Finn M. W. Caspersen and Household International Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published widely on the theory of taxation and public economics.