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1978 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Computing Optimal Tolls in a Money Economy

verfasst von : C. Bronsard, L. Salvas-Bronsard, D. Delisle

Erschienen in: Econometric Contributions to Public Policy

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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A major economic fact of the last fifty years is the increasing importance of the state. In the case of the Canadian economy, the total government budget grew from 10 per cent to 46 per cent of gross national product. Two technical consequences which one cannot over-emphasise stem from this stage of affairs: (a)a broader and more complex tax base(b)repeated direct and indirect interventions in the marketplace to the point where the state now holds the balance of power on every market. The first consequence has pushed economists to revise their views on optimal taxation: a modern state cannot limit itself to uniform taxes and lump-sum taxes. Because of the second consequence optimal taxation formulae cannot be derived from partial equilibrium analysis but rather from a generalised Pareto optimum framework.

Metadaten
Titel
Computing Optimal Tolls in a Money Economy
verfasst von
C. Bronsard
L. Salvas-Bronsard
D. Delisle
Copyright-Jahr
1978
Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan UK
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16003-7_10