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CORPORATE TAXES AND INVESTMENT

…explain why we should ignore this evidence that directly contradicts his theory. His theory appears to be like the supply side theory that if we cut personal taxes on savings…

Fairness as a concern of economics

…(Chicago PhD in labor economics) that starts off the second chapter on fairness. The neoclassical theory of wage determination, which I taught for 30 years and have tried to explain…

The Internet and the Productivity Speedup

…inventories. … hmmmm maybe. After the jump I will get serious, but here I will describe a theory which just came to me. I was thinking “The internet caused productivity…

Economic theory and workers

Michael Perelman at Econospeak and here has thoughts on the role of the worker in economic theory I found interesting. An August 8, 2008 search of 73 economics journals collected…

Opus 1, Second movement: On taxation

…in 1987 by Joseph Bankman and Thomas Griffith of optimal tax theory “developed by economist James Mirrlees”. Mr. Avi-Yonah describes the theory as: “Optimal tax theory seeks to answer the…

Starve the Beast Theory with a Lag

…year that action is not taken to reduce it. This imbalance now equals about 8 percent of all future GDP and it could, in theory, be eliminated by more-than doubling…

Incoherent and Incoherenter

…fiscal theory of the price level is the theory of the immaculate debt inflation. It must hold, but firms setting prices don’t consider the public debt and expected future primary…