First, science generated without regard to questions about whose purposes it serves is not likely to persuade those who feel that their…
We compare two approaches to increasing tax revenue: tax administration and tax rates. We show that when Indonesia moved top regional firms…
It matters if public policies succeed in solving societal problems, but a dominant narrative holds that policies fail ‘often’. A large-…
We distinguish between ideational and interest-based appeals to voters on the supply side of politics, and integrate the Keynes-Hayek…
Economists have generally underplayed until recently globalization’s role in exacerbating inequality in the advanced economies. But in the…
Conventional welfare state policies that centre on education, training, progressive taxation, and social insurance are inadequate to…
Is a credible multilateral climate change agreement feasible? This column says that such global cooperation is necessary and attempts to…
Can taxes on consumption redistribute in developing countries? Contrary to
consensus, we show that taxing consumption is progressive once…
Using Fontana et al.’s (2019) database, we analyze levels and trends in the global distribution of authorship in economics journals,…