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Termites of the State: Why Complexity Leads to Inequality - Hardcover

Tanzi, Vito

 
9781108420938: Termites of the State: Why Complexity Leads to Inequality
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1108420931 ISBN 13: 9781108420938
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

A sweeping historical account of the crises of income inequality and crony capitalism from a world-renowned public economist.

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About the Author

Vito Tanzi, an economist of international renown, served for twenty years as Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC with which he was affiliated for nearly three decades. Dr Tanzi is the author or editor of over 25 books, including Government Versus Markets (2011) and Public Spending in the 20th Century (2000, with Ludger Schuknecht). A former Undersecretary for Economy and Finance of the Italian Government, he was President of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) from 1990 to 1994. Dr Tanzi is known for the Tanzi effect, or Olivera-Tanzi effect, which refers to the diminished real value of tax revenues in periods of high inflation due to collection lags. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank and the United Nations and previously taught at George Washington University, Washington, DC, and American University, Washington, DC.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1108420931
ISBN 13 
9781108420938
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
454