The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation
This book focuses on the distributional consequences of the public sector and examines and documents, theoretically and empirically, the effects of government spending and taxation on personal distribution, and includes chapters investigating the relation
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Also edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou HYMAN P. MINSKY: Induced Investment and Business Cycles MODERNIZING FINANCIAL SYSTEMS STABILITY IN THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM ASPECTS OF DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH AND INCOME POVERTY AND PROSPERITY IN THE US IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY (with Edward N. Wolff) PROFITS, DEFICITS AND INSTABILITY FINANCIAL CONDITIONS AND MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: Essays in Honor of Hyman P. Minsky (with Steven M. Fazzari)
The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation Edited by
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou Jerome Levy Professor of Economics Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
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1. Income distribution-United States. 2. Distributive justiceUnited States. 3. Finance, Public-United States. 4. Fiscal policy-United States. I. Papadimitriou, Dimitri B. HC110.15.D533 2006 339.20973-dc22 2005057768 10 9 8 15 14 13
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Contents The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
vii viii
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors
ix
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
xv
1 Government Effects on the Distribution of Income: An Overview Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
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Part I
