Peasants Versus City-Dwellers : Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development.

Intro -- PREFACE -- Contents -- PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO ISSUES AND METHODOLOGY -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Normative versus Positive Analysis -- 1.2 Analysis under Limited Data Availability -- 1.3 Policy and Political Economy -- 1.4 General-Equilibrium Analysis -- 1.5 The Structure of the Book -- 1.6 The Nature of the Results -- 1.7 Some Remarks on the Role of Theory -- 2. THE OBJECTIVES AND INSTRUMENTS OF GOVERNMENT POLICY AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY IN LDCs -- 2.1 Stated Objectives of Food-Related Policies -- 2.2 Putting Agricultural Policies in Perspective -- 2.3 The Economic Structure of LDCs -- 2.4 Concluding Remarks -- 3. AN APPROACH TO APPLIED WELFARE ECONOMICS -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Theoretical Background -- 3.3 Applied Welfare Economics for LDCs -- PART II: INTER-SECTORAL TAXATION POLICIES -- 4. RURAL-URBAN PRICES IN OPEN ECONOMIES -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 A Simple Model -- 4.3 Analysis of Changes in Agricultural and Industrial Prices -- 4.4 Price-Productivity Effects -- Appendix -- 5. THE PRICE SCISSORS IN OPEN ECONOMIES -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Effects on the Investible Surplus of Changes in the Price Scissors -- 5.3 Welfare Effects of Changing the Price Scissors -- 5.4 Optimal Price Scissors -- 5.5 Concluding Remarks -- 6. THE PRICE SCISSORS IN CLOSED AND PARTIALLY CLOSED SOCIALIST ECONOMIES -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Model -- 6.3 Reform in the Price Scissors -- 6.4 Optimal Price Scissors -- 6.5 Economies with Traded and Non-Traded Goods -- 6.6 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix -- 7. THE SOVIET INDUSTRIALIZATION DEBATE AND COLLECTIVIZATION -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Preobrazhensky's Propositions -- 7.3 The Correct Size of the Price Scissors -- 7.4 Collectivization -- 7.5 A Postscript on the Soviet Debate -- PART III: THE RURAL SECTOR -- 8. INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND ALTERNATIVE ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS WITHIN THE RURAL SECTOR.

8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Distributional Effects -- 8.3 Alternative Forms of Rural Organization -- 8.4 Effects of Wages and Prices on Rural Productivity -- 8.5 Concluding Remarks -- 9. TAXES AND SUBSIDIES ON DIFFERENT GOODS IN THE RURAL SECTOR -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 A General Formulation -- 9.3 Informationally Parsimonious Pareto-Improving Price Reforms for Cash-Crops and Manufactured Inputs -- 9.4 Should Some Cash-Crops or Manufactured Inputs be Taxed and Others Subsidized? -- 9.5 Some Caveats -- Appendix -- PART IV: THE URBAN SECTOR -- 10. THE IMPACT OF URBAN WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT DETERMINATION ON TAXATION POLICIES -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 A General Formulation of Urban Wage-Determination -- 10.3 Urban-Rural Prices with an Endogenous Urban Wage -- 10.4 Price Scissors with Endogenous Wages -- 10.5 Endogenous Urban Wage versus Government-Controlled Urban Wage: Which is the Appropriate Assumption for LDCs? -- 10.6 Note on the Urban Wage Fixed in Terms of the Utility Level -- 10.7 Urban Unemployment -- 11. SOME ASPECTS OF THE WAGE-PRODUCTIVITY HYPOTHESIS THAT ARE RELEVANT FOR TAXATION ANALYSIS -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Why Do Wages and Prices Affect Productivity? -- 11.3 A Model of Wages, Prices, Productivity, and Unemployment -- 12. TAXES AND SUBSIDIES ON DIFFERENT GOODS IN THE URBAN SECTOR -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 A General Formulation -- 12.3 Generalizations -- Appendix -- 13. TAX POLICY IN THE PRESENCE OF MIGRATION AND URBAN UNEMPLOYMENT -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 The General Migration Relationship -- 13.3 Rural-Urban Prices -- 13.4 Pareto-Efficient Urban Taxes on Different Goods -- 13.5 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix -- 14. TAXATION IN THE URBAN SECTOR: SOME ASPECTS OF THE UNDERLYING MODEL -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 A General ModeI of the Urban Sector -- 14.3 Inefficiency of Market Equilibrium.

14.4 Interdependence of Demand and Supply of Urban Labour -- 14.5 Concluding Remarks -- 15. THE SOCIAL COST OF LABOUR -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 The Model -- 15.3 Special Cases -- 15.4 Concluding Remarks -- 16. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 16.1 Some Key Issues -- 16.2 Political Economy Considerations -- 16.3 The Policy Predicament -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.

In this book Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and co-author Raaj Sah address one of development's major issues. Most of today's countries face town versus country tensions of increasing severity, including such issues as who should pay how much in taxes, who should get how much in subsidies, and what forms the taxes and subsidies should take. This volume analyses these tensions and issues, taking into account the great diversity of institutions and economic environments observed in different developing countries.

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