Fiscal Policies, Inflation and Capital Formation

Fiscal Policies, Inflation and Capital Formation
Author: Martin Feldstein
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1980
Genre:
ISBN:

Three ways of averting "excess saving" have been emphasized in both theory and practice. The thrust of the Keynesian prescription was to increase the government deficit to provide demand for the resources that would not otherwise be used for either consumption or investment. In this way, aggregate demand would be maintained by substituting public consumption for private consumption. A second alternative prescription was to reduce the private saving rate. Early Keynesians like Seymour Harris saw the new Social Security program as an effective way to reduce aggregate saving. The third type of policy, developed by JamesTobin, relies on increasing the rate of inflation and making money less attractive relative to real capital. In Tobin's analysis, the resulting increase in capital intensity offsets the higher saving rate and therefore maintains aggregate demand. This paper will examine ways of increasing capital intensity without raising the rate of inflation. The analysis will also show why, contrary to Tobin's conclusion, a higher rate of inflation may not succeed in increasing investors' willingness to hold real capital

Inflation, Tax Rules, and Capital Formation

Inflation, Tax Rules, and Capital Formation
Author: Martin Feldstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2009-05-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0226241793

Inflation, Tax Rules, and Capital Formation brings together fourteen papers that show the importance of the interaction between tax rules and monetary policy. Based on theoretical and empirical research, these papers emphasize the importance of including explicit specifications of the tax system in such study.

Taxation and the Deficit Economy

Taxation and the Deficit Economy
Author: Dwight R. Lee
Publisher: Pacific Studies in Public Poli
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1986
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This texts contains essays written by economists who review the effects of past government actions & reforms needed to avoid long term economic stagnation. Topics discussed include social security, the military industrial complex, & private vs. political entrpreneurship. Generally, the topics include such topics as the economic effects of taxation, spending, deficits, & other forms of hidden taxation, & taxation & individual rights.

Deficits

Deficits
Author: Robert E. Weintraub
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1981
Genre: Deficit financing
ISBN: