This is the reaction on the article of Václav Klusoň "Come-Backs of Dr. Bernard Mandeville: Virtuous Knaves in Economic Transformation". I put in contrast economic thinking of B. Mandeville and A. Smith and argue that both Smith's social and moral philosophy and his economic thought is more...

There is now a large and complex literature on optimal income taxation, within the context of second-best welfare economics. This paper considers the potential role of this analysis in the practical design of direct tax and transfer structures. It is stressed that few results are robust, even in...

The book analyzes a regime that is controlling the big desert country Sudan, represented in group hiding behind a dogma they do not believe. The flag of Islamic principles are raised but whatever colors it carries, they are smeared by greed, envy, and blood of numberless innocents. The group is...

Womens’ empowerment is one of the imperative issues of development. It is expected that women’s empowerment through access to savings and credits, employment, income opportunities, consumption, mobility, education, health, control over asset, personal security and participation in the...

The transition from socialist to market economics is typically informed by outcomes-based social welfare theory (SWT). Institutionless, intentionally value-free SWT is ill-suited to this enterprise. The only evaluative standard to which it gives rise--efficiency--is indeterminate, and the theory...

God gave Moses the Decalogue (The Ten Commandments) in the Sinai or Horep (Exodus 20:1-17; Leviticus 19; Deuteronomy 5:6-21) and salvation to all before Jesus. Jesus summarized the Decalogue into two (Matthew 21:34-40, Mark 12:28-31 and Luke 10:25-37). St. Augustine of Hippo based on the Decalogue...

El trabajo parte de una pregunta fundamental: ¿La democracia es funcional a la racionalidad propuesta a las sociedades desde la economía de mercado capitalista?. Darle salida a este interrogante exige asumir dos presupuestos teóricos: 1) no asumir una equiparación lineal y estática entre...

MicroReg è un classico modello di microsimulazione, tax-benefit, costruito per la Regione Toscana dall’Irpet. L’obiettivo è quello di garantire al policy maker regionale un adeguato strumento di valutazione e programmazione delle politiche fiscali e di welfare, siano esse attuate a livello...

This paper analyzes the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in a public finance context. We assume that to live off one's own work is a social norm, and that the larger the population fraction adhering to this norm, the more intensely it is felt by the individual. It is shown...