Lifting the Burden - Tax Reform, the Cost of Capital and U.S. Economic Growth (v. 3) (Investment) - Hardcover

Jorgenson, Dale W.; Yun, Kun-Young

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ISBN 10: 0262100916 ISBN 13: 9780262100915

Verlag: MIT Press, 2001

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Book by Jorgenson Dale W Yun KunYoung

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"The most rigorous analysis available of tax reform, the cost of capital, and economic growth. A must-read for serious participants in the reform debate."--Michael J. Boskin, T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Stanford University, and former Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisers (1989-93) "American Economic Policy in the 1990s provides a comprehensive overview, offers important insights, and debates many lessons --good, bad, and ugly, depending on perspective--from many of the participants in policy formulation and implementation in the Clinton years. Must reading for students and would-be policy makers alike."--Michael J. Boskin, T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Stanford University, and former Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisers (1989-93)

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This book presents a comprehensive treatment of the cost-of-capital approach for analyzing the economic impact of tax policy. This approach has provided an intellectual impetus for reforms of capital income taxation in the United States and around the world. The cost of capital and the marginal effective tax rate are combined with estimates of substitution possibilities by businesses and households in analyzing tax and spending programs. This makes it possible to evaluate tax reforms and changes in government spending. Studies of the economic impact of tax policies have taken two forms. First, the cost of capital has been incorporated into investment functions in macroeconomic models, which are used to model the short-run responses to tax policy changes. Second, the cost-of-capital approach has been integrated into applied general-equilibrium models used in evaluating the long-run economic effects of tax reforms.The cost-of-capital approach suggests two avenues for tax reform. One would retain the income tax base of the existing U.S. tax system, but would equalize tax burdens on all forms of assets as well as average and marginal tax rates on labor income. The other would substitute consumption for income as a tax base, while equating average and marginal tax rates on labor income.

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• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0262100916
• ISBN 13: 9780262100915
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 504