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Governments all round the world are facing problems with their public finances. At a time of austerity, how much should spending be cut and how much should taxes be raised? Does the national debt represent a burden for future generations? Should taxes on the rich be raised? This book examines how the tools of public economics can be applied to answer such key questions and to suggest alternatives to the austerity policies currently being pursued.The fiscal problems faced are not simply the result of the post-2008 economic crisis but reflect a deep-seated fault line in modern economies. There h

Social indicators are an important tool for evaluating a country's level of social development and for assessing the impact of policy. Such indicators are already in use in investigating poverty and social exclusion in several European countries and have begun to play a significant role in advancing the social dimension of the European Union as a whole. The purpose of this book is to make a scientific contribution to the development of social indicators for the purposes of Europeanpolicy-making. It considers the principles underlying the construction of policy-relevant indicators, the definiti

Tony Atkinson lays out a programme for reducing inequality in a modern, globalised economy, including changes to tax and spend, employment, pay and wealth policies. But ultimately, he argues, the solutions lie in our hands, as consumers, savers, investors, workers and employers.