Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation

Nobel Prize-winning economist James Mirrlees is one of the world's leading figures in welfare, development, and public sector economics. This volume brings together for the first time twenty-three of his seminal papers on welfare economics, tax theory, public expenditure, contract theory,growth theory, and development economics.Academic and professional economists, particularly those interested in welfare, development, and public sector economics, will find this collection invaluable.

Part I Welfare Economics

1. Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks

3

(20)

2. Notes on Welfare Economics, Information, and Uncertainty

23

(16)

3. The Desirability of Natural Resource Depletion with John A. Kay

39

(30)

4. The Economic Uses of Utilitarianism

69

(31)

5. Welfare Economics and Economies of Scale

100

(31)

Part II Tax Theory

6. An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation

131

(43)

7. On Producer Taxation

174

(9)

8. The Optimum Town

183

(22)

9. Population Policy and the Taxation of Family Size

205

(24)

10. Optimal Tax Theory: A Synthesis

229

(30)

11. The Theory of Optimal Taxation

259

(50)

12. Migration and Optimal Income Taxes

309

(21)

13. Taxing Uncertain Incomes

330

(15)

Part III Public Expenditure

14. Arguments for Public Expenditure

345

(21)

15. Optimal Taxation and Government Finance

366

(21)

Part IV Contract Theory

16. The Optimal Structure of Incentives and Authority within an Organization

387

(33)

17. The Theory of Moral Hazard and Unobservable Behaviour: Part I

420

(25)

Part V Growth Theory

18. The Dynamic Nonsubstitution Theorem

445

(13)

19. Agreeable Plans with Peter J. Hammond

458

(23)

20. Fairly Good Plans with N.H. Stern

481

(19)

21. Optimum Saving with Economies of Scale with Avinash Dixit and Nicholas Stern

500

(33)

Part VI Development Economics

22. A Pure Theory of Underdeveloped Economies

533

(21)

23. Project Appraisal and Planning Twenty Years On: Appendix with Ian Little

554

(5)

Index

559

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