Competition between companies tends to be beneficial for the general public, but is this also true for competition between States in a world with global financial markets, low transport costs, and increasing migration? In this book, Sinn provides a solid economic analysis of the competitive...

Die grüne Umweltpolitik ist voller Paradoxien: Windräder verschandeln unsere Landschaft, klimaschonende Atomkraftwerke werden abgeschaltet, der Biosprit in unseren Autos verursacht Hunger in armen Ländern. Alle nationalen Maßnahmen von Ökosteuer bis zur staatlichen Förderung grüner...

In explaining economic phenomena, economic analysis concentrates on selected influences and fixes the host of other factors under a ceteris paribus clause. This view, which goes back to Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), is developed in the first part of the book. Aggregation is viewed as a particular...

In recent years the increasing international mobility of capital, firms and consumers has begun to constrain tax policies in most OECD countries, playing a major role in reforming national tax systems. Haufler uses the theory of international taxation to consider the fundamental forces...