Ricardo, Gold, and Rails: Discovering the Origins of<i>Progress and Poverty</i>

England, Richard

doi:10.1111/j.1536-7150.2010.00744.x

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“…To resolve this circumstance George developed and advocated a Single Tax policy; a land tax that would reduce non-productive wealth accumulation and which would more equitably benefit everyone in society through equitable taxation policy (George, 1912). His work was considered a very progressive theory in its day -his text went on to sell more than 3 million copies after its publication in 1879 (England, 2010) -and the importance of his theory continues to be discussed today over a century later (Hoff, 1991;Shoup, 2004). In its day, his ideas resonated very strongly with many in America and abroad.…”

Section: Re-assembling Monopoly™mentioning

confidence: 99%

Implications of limited investor attention to customer–supplier information transfers

Zhu

2014

The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

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We examine the (dis)incentive effects created by the respective tax systems to invest in human capital in Atlantic Canada and compare this to a select group of provinces from the rest of Canada. While findings show a steady decline in effective tax rates through the years, thereby creating an incentive effect to invest in post-secondary education, disproportionately higher rate gap differentials in the Atlantic Provinces, on average, combined with negative comparative statics reveal a somewhat different undertone. The counterproductive nature of the competing policies effectively nullifies any status quo argument for education or tax policy in the Atlantic Provinces, when compared to their brethren. The graduate retention rebate provides some solace to the narrative in helping to alleviate early tax burdens and equalize returns, but is difficult to claim effectiveness in assuaging any monetary windfall associated with migration. IntroductionThe goal of this paper is to assess the (dis)incentive effects created by the provincial tax systems for human capital investment in Atlantic Canada. Our test subjects are university graduates, but we note that such methodology could be applied to any level or subset of the population that possess human capital deemed scarce and productive, in the economic sense. We do not purport to suggest that university graduates are more important in the economic well being of an economy than, say, skilled trades or college graduates, e.g., and encourage one to think of our case as a subset of a larger sample of possibilities. Our presumption, like our goal, is simple; namely, an empirical investigation of incentivizing the tax system in Atlantic Canada remains an unexplored possibility for strategic policy implementation to retain and recruit scarce resources in the market for human capital. We use the impact on effective tax rates (ETRs) and rates of return as our policy litmus test and explore by empirical and simulation analysis the unilateral exploitation of a select number of provincial tax systems. Some may claim that this work puts the * Collins would like to acknowledge the support of the CRS-SSHRC institutional research grant at St. Francis Xavier University in helping to complete this research.proverbial cart before the horse, as it were, since to attract workers a province needs the requisite infrastructure and such may not be currently present at the appropriate level(s) to warrant an increase in the supply of skilled labour. To that end, we suggest that a more accurate assessment (or, at least, a plausible alternative) might be akin to a "chicken or the egg" argument; namely, which comes first? We leave this debate up to the interested reader for now, and focus on establishing the empirics of the analysis in an effort to add the requisite fodder for a more informed discussion.While previous research has examined the disincentive effects created by the tax system for, e.g., university and college graduates (see, for instance, Burbidge et al., 2012), the current study is diff...

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Section: Re-assembling Monopoly™mentioning

confidence: 99%

Implications of limited investor attention to customer–supplier information transfers

Zhu

2014

The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

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Ricardo, Gold, and Rails: Discovering the Origins ofProgress and Poverty

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