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Op Ed: Throwing Cold Water On Expensing Of Assets, Deborah A. Geier
Op Ed: Throwing Cold Water On Expensing Of Assets, Deborah A. Geier
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Deborah A. Geier rebuts a proposal for full expensing (except for 10-year depreciation of buildings) for all assets and all taxpayers to accomplish simplification, arguing that such a proposal would need to be combined with a repeal of the interest deduction.
Peter Mieszkowski And The General Equilibrium Revolution In Public Finance, James R. Hines Jr.
Peter Mieszkowski And The General Equilibrium Revolution In Public Finance, James R. Hines Jr.
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The importance of understanding the implications of general equilibrium is by now abundantly clear to researchers analyzing public fi nance issues. What is perhaps less apparent is that this was not always so. The study of public fi nance was radically transformed during the 15 years between 1959 and 1974 by the pioneering efforts of a small number of leading scholars, notably including Peter Mieszkowski. Thanks to their efforts, the analysis of applied problems in public finance moved from partial equilibrium to general equilibrium, providing the methods and insights that characterize modern public economics. The transformation began with the publication …