Optimal Income Tax and Redistribution

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This book provides a comprehensive survey of optimal income tax theory, following the development of research strategy from the basic Mirrlees model through to its refinements, examining how optimal tax rates and the shape of tax schedules are affected by new considerations. Optimal tax theory has an important contribution to make to tax policy formation, and has become especially pertinent in recent years with the renewal of controversy over whether progressive income tax is in fact desirable or not. The author not only covers the historical background and modern formulations of the theory, but extends his discussion to consider the most important extensions of the model and the interrelation of income tax with other instruments of tax and expenditure policy.

Public goods and the distribution of income [An article from: European Economic Review]

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Public goods and the distribution of income [An article from: European Economic Review]
L. Kaplow
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000P6O0EQ

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This digital document is a journal article from European Economic Review, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This article addresses conceptual issues concerning the distributive incidence of public goods. Solutions depend on the specific purposes for asking the question of distributive incidence-notably, assessing the extent to which various public goods should be provided, determining how the provision of public goods affects the desirability of income redistribution, and providing a meaningful description of the distribution of well-being. In the course of the analysis, a simple and intuitive version of the benefit principle of taxation (qualitatively different from those commonly advanced in pertinent literatures) is presented, and some of the problems confronting empirical attempts to measure the distributive incidence of public goods are resolved.

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Optimal Income Tax and Redistribution
Matti Tuomala
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: B000OLCY9A

Taxes and employment subsidies in optimal redistribution programs (NBER working paper series)

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Taxes and employment subsidies in optimal redistribution programs (NBER working paper series)
Paul Beaudry
Manufacturer: National Bureau of Economic Research
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wonderful beginning

Who says feminism can't be funny?

An Antidote to "Cathy"

Buy a copy for everyone you know!

LAUGH OUT LOUD FUNNY!

#1 Stone Soup: The First Collection of the Syndicated Cartoon Strip (Syndicated Cartoon Stone Soup)
Jan Eliot
Manufacturer: Four Panel Press
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Binding: Paperback

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What'ss a real family like? These days it'ss bound to resemble the lovable clan in Stone Soup. Stone Soup is a funny, irreverent, sympathetic comic strip read by more than 8 million people every day. This first collection, with forward by Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse, will help you find the humor in modern family.

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wonderful beginning.......2007-08-29

This first book of stone soup is wonderful. I finally understand where the characters began and laughed all the way through. The drawings are less refined than the most recent comics, but I enjoy seeing the figures improve as the writing gets sharper.

Who says feminism can't be funny?.......2000-08-17

There seems to be a lot of debate going on in the previous reviews over whether or not Stone Soup is feminist. My opinion: of course it is! And it's quite refreshing to see a comic strip that isn't afraid to be. Better yet, the strip is never preachy and, unlike Foxtrot (to which it gets compared frequently), it's almost always funny. I've also seen a lot of comparisons to For Better or for Worse (helped along perhaps by the fact that Lynn Johnston wrote the introduction to this collection) which I find closer to the truth. The big difference there is that unlike FBoFW, Stone Soup is almost never sentimental. Eliot always finds a way to squeeze a laugh out of good times and bad, without dwelling on her storylines or overdeveloping them. While her focus may be on single mothers, her humor is accessible to one and all. And of course, it helps that Val and the gang always manage to keep their sanity intact at the end of each story!

An Antidote to "Cathy".......2000-05-19

How completely, utterly *refreshing* to read a comic strip where the female characters don't value themselves based on their waist measurements, their spendthrift shopping habits, or by how men see them. How wonderful and hilarious to see a comic-strip Mom who's got better things to do than become the family doormat -- Val's no-nonsense dealings with the kids is a refreshing change from the usual Mommy-clean-my-mess (from husband as well as kids) in most family comic strips. Of course STONE SOUP is feminist (Oh! I just said the "f" word!) -- it dares to presume that female characters can carry a comic strip all by themselves, and be funny and interesting in and of themselves, and that families come in all shapes and sizes. Naturally it's taken years for Eliot to come out with a *second* collection of these wonderful strips while the bulimia manual CATHY and the formulaic mommy-doormat FOXTROT are on their umpteenth releases -- some people are just so *threatened* by real women, aren't they?

Buy a copy for everyone you know!.......2000-04-14

Someone below called this a feminist comic strip but I think that's misleading, especially given the current difficulties in just defining that word. Yes, it happens to have several female characters, and yes it's not a stereotypical mom-dad-dog-2.4-kids-wagon-picket-fence family, BUT: This strip is about all of us, everyone of every sex and age and family style, and it's enjoyable to (and enjoyed by) a wide range of people -- even ordinary traditional people and even (gasp) men! My husband loves it, my 60-something dad loves it, and so on. I think the publisher's blurb on the back of the second Stone Soup collection ("You Can't Say Boobs On Sunday") got it right: "Anyone who's ever had a family, been in a family, or known a family seems to love Stone Soup. ... Readers see themselves and their families in Stone Soup, and they love it." That goes for people who don't consider themselves family-oriented, and for people who do.

Everyone I've known who's read any Stone Soup has enjoyed it and wound up quoting or passing around some of the strips.

Recommended reading for everyone except total grumps, I say.

LAUGH OUT LOUD FUNNY!.......2000-01-06

I read a lot of comic strips and most make me smile, some invoke a chuckle. Stone Soup is the only one that makes me laugh out loud over and over. My refrigerator is covered in Stone Soup and so is the wall of my cubicle at work. BUY THIS BOOK AND THE SECOND COLLECTION, YOU WON'T REGRET IT!

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It is just ok...............2001-11-29

New York Giants: 75 Years.....just ok. First, there are several typos and incorrect facts. Example: incorrect year when Jim Fassel won the NFC East. Also, there were many great Giants such as Spider Lockhart, Joe Morrison, Homer Jones, Bob Tucker, Eddie Price, Ron Johnson, Brad Van Pelt, Dave Jennings, Sean Landeta, etc. who garned little or no mention. Although the period of 1965-1979 was a bleak one for our beloved Giants, it still was a time that was very much a part of the great history of this team.
The photography is good, especially of Gifford, Huff, Title and the like.

All in all...not bad. But it could have been better.

Book for all football fans.......2000-07-28

Here you have one of the most beautyful and complete football book I ever read.The kind of book you open at the first page and close at the last one.If you can only buy one football book, that the one you need.You gonna read some parts of NFL story inside the story of the Giants.For sure one of this parts is the 1958 championship game,maybe the greatest game ever play,some pics of the old balls and uniforms.Talking about pics,I give them 100% for the illustrate part of the book,the pics are incredible. For the Giants story now,you learn all you need from the years at Polo ground to the ones at Giants stadium.A look at the greatest players of the team like Frank Gifford,Y.A.tittle,Phil Simms and for sure L.T.The book can`t be complete without the Bill Parcell and Mara family chapters.You`re football library is not complete until you`ve got"NEW YORK GIANTS SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS".The only thing I can say to conclude my review is buy it before he go out of print,that gonna be a collection book.

Book for all football fans.......2000-07-28

G-I-A-N-T-S.......2000-01-05

If your a GIANTS fan, this book is unbelievable. The text is a bit trite, very rah-rah. But the pictures are GREAT. They are all high quality, and a great mix of famous pictures (YA Tiddle), and not so famous pictures (Gary Reasons stopping a goal line run). A great gift for a blue-bleeder!

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The world's first in-depth guide to the exciting new medium of DVD-Video, listing more than 2,400 DVDs on the market, Doug Pratts book is likely to remain the best guide to films on DVD for a long time. Why? Because Doug is the most experienced journalist dealing with movies on disc. As the editor for seventeen years of The Laser Disc Newsletter-now The DVD-Laser Disc Newsletter-and the author of Laser Video Disc Companion, Doug has seen it all.

The DVD-Video medium has exploded in the home entertainment market. It has had the quickest introduction of any consumer electronics product so far. Thousands of movies are now available on DVD-Video, and Doug Pratt has watched-and reviewed-nearly all of them.

Doug's witty and engaging commentary lets you know right away whether a DVD is worth investing in. He knows the technology cold and he tells you straight out how well the publisher has transferred the movie to the new medium. He also provides useful insights on all aspects of the program content.

If you've just bought a DVD-Video player, or if your new computer came equipped with a DVD drive, you must have Doug Pratts Guide to DVD-Video.

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Technology at its simplest........2000-04-04

I have to admit, I am not technologically inclined but after reading this book, anyone can understand DVD video. I learned much and it made me think further about purchasing the whole DVD setup.

Please add rating summary.......2000-04-02

This is one of the very few books available for DVD review.( the only other book I know is a special issue from Widescreen Review but it is not as complete ) Mr. Pratt uses the same format as his previous book-"Leaserdisc Review". As a LD & DVD collector,I find his book rather useful but sometimes hard to read. His review style is very good which generally cover 4 areas; film, video quality, audio quality and bonus feature. But for some titles, Mr. Pratt is too polite and not aggressive enough to point out the poor quality of transfer or problem of the source materials. It would be nice if he can add a rating summary at the end of each title ( give 1-5 star rating for the 4 parts mentioned above ). Adding picture of DVD cover would make the presentation more attractive but it may require too much work. I will be happy if he can add rating for each review especially on quality of transfer. Most collectors like myself, know exactly what movies to get, and we can find out bonus features information on the back of DVD box or product listing on web pages. What we do not know and eager to find out is the quality of video and audio. I admire and appreciate Mr. Pratt's dedication to make this book available for us. Thanks.

Doug Pratt's DVD: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More! (2 vol)

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Doug Pratt's DVD: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More! (2 vol)
Douglas Pratt
Manufacturer: Harbor Electronic Publishing
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With over 7,000 reviews, and spanning 2 volumes (over 1,300 pages), Doug Pratt's DVD is the one collection of DVD reviews you need to own, written by one of the most prolific and wide-ranging media critics working today.

Doug Pratt is uniquely qualified to write this book. As the editor and publisher of The DVD-Laser Disc Newsletter - the insider's guide to the medium - he has been reviewing laserdiscs and DVDs for over twenty years. He has established a reputation as the premier critic of films, videos, and other presentations on disc.

His wealth of knowledge about the medium is unsurpassed. After checking out Doug Pratt's DVD you'll know instantly whether a disc is worth purchasing, or which version of a film to rent. Doug covers much more than just feature films: the books include trenchant commentary on music videos, operas, documentaries, video art, historic television - even erotic DVDs. From A.I. to Zulu you'll find the lowdown here. Doug Pratt brings to this ambitious job a lot of common sense and a rare wit.

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Just Saving Up To Purchase . . . Revised.......2005-05-18

I have been reading Doug Pratt's video reviews for years. His newsletters have been an incredible resource, steering me toward movies or television programs on video that I might not have tried without his recommendation. His reviews not only include criticism of content but bonus materials and audio/visual quality. While there may be a lot of free reviews online, I have found many reviewers do not take the time to fully inspect bonus features on video nor are their appraisals of technical features (e.g., picture and sound) trust-worthy. Pratt's efforts should be praised.

His critical writing is also excellent. While my tastes do not exactly fall in line with his, I have always enjoyed reading his work. With the appropriate subject matter, Mr. Pratt can make draw connections in film or filmmaking itself to life. I wish I could make that sound less pretentious because Pratt's work is not pretentious. He is a grounded critic who understands that video can be valued in many ways (e.g., purely for entertainment's sake or, when it aspires to, for opening a viewer's mind). He also covers an incredible range of viewing from Hollywood blockbusters to family fare to documentaries to whatever one can imagine has been released on DVD. Plus, the man has a very good sense of humor.

The only thing that has stopped me from purchasing this work is the price. I was hoping my wife was going to order this for me, but I will have to be less subtle when the next gift-giving holiday comes around. I am looking forward to having his writing collected in these volumes. Highly recommended.

NOTE: I finally just up and ordered the set, and my recommendation stands. Terrific set, though an index might have been helpful. I know this is an expensive purchase, but I swear that if someone posted a link above to Pratt's remarks on Steven Soderbergh's TRAFFIC, these volumes might just fly out of the warehouse.

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Politics of the Imagination is an account of the life and work of Charles Fort (1874â€“1932). Born in Albany, New York, Fort spent almost his entire life searching through periodicals in the New York Public Library and the British Museum, compiling evidence to show that science was a mere facade. In a series of books-The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, and Wild Talents-Fort argued that science was a new form of social control whose object was to conceal the fantastical nature of the universe by editing out paradoxes, miracles, and paranormal events.

Politics has a foreword by John Keel, whose book The Mothman Prophecies is now a major motion picture starring Richard Gere.

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A Brilliant Expedition.......2004-12-18

Charles Fort seems to have regarded all events as morally neutral, or at least morally equal, and so he might have regarded this altogether admiring and swashbucklingly wide-ranging account of his life and thought as excessive. Still, I think Fort would have ended up loving Colin Bennett's book, which explicates with wonderful, pan-dimensional clarity Fort's notion that, in the words of the author, "science was a new form of social control whose object was to conceal the fantastical nature of the universe by means of editing out paradoxes, contradictions, miracles, paranormal events--anything that was unusual or which did not fit into a set scheme of things." Recommended to all the universes.

Anomalist Book Award 2002 -- Best Biography.......2004-09-21

If Thomas Pynchon had any interest in Charles Fort, this is the kind of book that might result. It's far more than a biography (Damon Knight already did that), but a literary study of Fort the writer, as well as a postmodern rant on the illusory nature of facts and reality in the light of Fort's philosophy. Bennett, like Fort, sees "explanations," especially those provided by science, as a superficial means of understanding. Even more than in his previous book, Looking for Orthon, Bennett does battle with modern skepticism, which he sees as a debilitating contemporary illness. This is a great, big, heady stew of a book full of references to literature, arts, philosophy and more-much, much more. Bennett takes Fort and runs for the goalposts--I don't think anyone else could have done him justice. This book is a monster, a raised fist at the orthodox prison of the mind that is contemporary culture.

not worth your time.......2004-09-13

Like the previous reviewer, I am a fan of Fort who greatly enjoyed Damon Knight's biography as well as Fort's work. I also found this book to be a wretched, worthless, and unreadable book of post-modern gibberish--I couldn't get past about the first 30 pages, though I did skim the rest, which appeared to have little to do with Fort. If you would like more insight on Fort, I recommend Knight's book and the pieces that have been published on him throughout the years in magazines such as Fortean Times by authors such as John Michell, Mark Chorvinsky, and Mike Dash, which I cited in my entry on Fort in Gordon Stein's Encyclopedia of the Paranormal.

PU.......2003-08-15

I confess I bought this for 2 reasons, I treasure my copy of Damon Knight's proto-bio of Fort from the 70's, and wanting to see a contemporary re-examination of Fort's life & work; and the chance to read some new John Keel writing with the foreword. I had then 2 realizations, Damon Knight's bio still stands as the only legitimate bio on Fort (who is worthy of far better than this mishmash) and a paragraph by Keel is often more insightful than entire books by others. I'd read Bennett's "Looking for Orthon" and enjoyed it, an adept descriptive travelog of the saucer mania in the 1950's. But this alleged study of the life, work & ideas on Fort is a travesty. This book is more about Bennett's fortean awakening, his political education and his various axes he wishes to grind in public. All in all, it's more about the author and less about Fort. My conclusion- don't bother. Get Knight's book through inter-library loan or out of print book services.

Heady and masterfully conceived.......2003-01-11

In a world of books about anomalies, very seldom does one come across a title that is, itself, an anomaly in its aptitude and outspokenness. Colin Bennett's "Politics of the Imagination," a heady examination of the life, work, and ideas of paranormal heavyweight Charles Fort, is a rich and singular book in which Bennett's postmodern sensibilities are brought to bear on one of the 20th century's most radical thinkers. Fort, an intellectual outcast who viewed science as so much socio-mythological advertising, has become synonymous with the unexplained. Bennet argues that "Fortean" phenomena such as UFOs, inexplicable artifacts, and falls of live fish reveal cracks in the buttresses of Big Science's illusory (and ever-fashionable) rationalism.

Bennett, like Fort, views reality itself as an anomaly to be held in constant question; "explanations," if available at all, are only a superficial means of understanding. Bennett grabs hold of the enigma that is Fort's iconoclasm and doesn't let go. Summoning a mass of scientific and literary esoterica, he writes with impeccable wit, pursuing his quarry with impressive dexterity. "Politics of the Imagination" is a high-calorie intellectual banquet of a book: challenging, learned, and incredibly fun. As long as Bennett is writing, Western empiricism can run, but it can't hide. With a foreword by John Keel, author of "The Mothman Prophecies."

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Would you like to write Windows programs but don’t know where to start?

Visual Basic. NET, the latest distribution of Microsoft’s programming language was designed to let anybody—even people with no prior programming experience—create sophisticated programs with stunning user interfaces, quickly and easily. A true marvel of computing technology, Visual Basic .NET combines BASIC, the only programming language specifically designed to teach beginners how to program, with a completely intuitive drawing program that lets you create cool user interfaces without having to write a single line of code.

Written by computer book author and well-known stand-up comic Wallace Wang, Visual Basic .NET For Dummies offers you a fun and easy way to master VB .NET programming. Featuring crystal-clear explanations along with dozens of working examples, it gives you what you need to tap the power of Visual Basic .NET. In no time you’ll:

Design a user interface
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Write programs on any scale—both large and small
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Visual Basic .NET For Dummies was designed to give you the confidence and skills you need to start building Windows programs right away—not turn you into a computer scientist. To that end, it features hands-on, jargon-free coverage of the full range of practical VB .NET topics, including:

Getting started and using the Visual Basic .NET interface
Creating full-featured user interfaces
Making menus--including pull-downs, submenus, growing menus, pop-up menus—and showing dialog boxes
Writing BASIC code
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Writing small subprograms and combining them to make large, robust programs
Getting a handle on object-oriented programming

Visual Basic .NET For Dummies is the pain-free way to get up to speed on Visual Basic programming and all the new features in Visual Basic .NET.

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Great book for anyone wanting to learn Visual Basic.......2006-02-19

I'm an IT engineer and was wanting to get stronger in scripting and code writing and heard this book was pretty good. Many other Microsoft or other company books are extremely dry reading where this was great. Whether you're a computer person or not, it's easy to follow, well structured, and has some amusing jokes. Learning VB.Net was much easier than I thought.

I'm an idiot... and this is garbage!.......2005-10-26

This is the worst book I have ever read. It' s like reading a book on how to use a light switch over and over again even though you've already done it 1000 times. Does that make sense? Either way, I'm drunk and this book sucked and I still can't program. What a waste. Good lord.

Excellent book!.......2005-09-10

I took a job without knowing any VB or Basic computer programming skills and this book helped me to understand and understand the programing language at a beginner level and propell me forward. Within four days I was creating my own VB program and had a good understanding as to how to get around the application and all it's power. I highly recommend this book!

Good Beginners book.......2004-06-17

If you have never programmed in VB than this is a great introduction to the VB and .NET. If you are a programmer, this is probably not the book you want. It is VERY VERY basic. There is no real life code examples.
Good for it's humor but not technical enough for a seasoned programmer.

QBASIC to VB .NET in 60 Seconds (Well almost!).......2004-04-24

Highly recommended for us old school programmers stuck in time still developing for the COMMAND shell. Easy reading that quickly made it apparent to me that the transition to Windows application development wasn't going to be nearly as traumatic as I first thought. In my humble opinion this book is a valuable starting point to an inevitable journey for us dinosaurs.

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