This paper encompasses multiple sources of inefficiency into a single general equilibrium model of the U.S. tax system. The authors measure interasset distortions using disaggregate calculations of user cost, and intersectoral distortions from the differential treatment of the corporate sector,...

On a topic like the environment, communication among scholars from different disciplines in the natural and social sciences is both important and difficult, but such communication has been far from perfect. Economists themselves may have contributed to some rather fundamental misunderstandings...