Listener: 23 January, 1988 (Edited for length) Keywords: Distributional Economics; Regulation & Taxation; What is a flat tax on incomes? Income taxes are imposed on different categories of incomes at different rates. For instance, under the regime introduced in October 1986, at the same time the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was introduced, the first…
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A paper for the New Zealand Planning Council conference, “The Distribution of Income and Wealth in New Zealand”, by Brian Easton* Keywords: Distributional Economics; Social Policy; Probably the first text I ever read as an economics undergraduate was Tjalling Koopmans’ “Three Essays on the State of Economic Science” (1957). The book contains an…
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Listener 3 October, 1987 Keywords: Distributional Economics; Social Policy; I t was meant to be a book launching, but it was really a christening. Instead of us all standing around in a bookshop, gallery or library – wine glass in hand, gossiping and complaining about the latest book awards – we commenced with…
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Listener 14 December, 1985.
Keywords: Distributional Economics;
“At the time of the Bengal famine (in which over one and a half million people died), in 1943, I was a young boy in Bengal. I have a harrowing memory of an end]ess procession of emaciated men, women, and children -more like skeletons than human beings -trekking in search of food. And of the roads Jittered with corpses. One recalls families of labourers, fishermen and craftsmen – all of whom had lost their means of livelihood.