Welfare, incentives, and taxation / James A. Mirrlees

Includes bibliographical references and index

Part 1: Welfare Economics Chapter 1: Information and Incentives Chapter 2: Notes on Welfare Economics Chapter 3: The Desirability of Natural Resource Depletion Chapter 4: The Economic Uses of Utilitarianism Chapter 5: Welfare Economics and Economies of Scale Part 2: Tax Theory Chapter 6: An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation Chapter 7: On Producer Taxation Chapter 8: The Optimum Town Chapter 9: Optimal Tax Theory: A Synthesis Chapter 10: The Theory of Optimum Taxation Chapter 11: Migration and Optimal Income Taxes Chapter 12: Taxing Uncertain Incomes Part 3: Public Expenditure Chapter 13: Arguments for Public Expenditure Chapter 14: Optimal Taxation and Government Finance Part 4: Contract Theory Chapter 15: The Optimal Structure of Incentives and Authority within an Organization Chapter 16: The Theory of Moral Hazard and Unobserved Behaviour Chapter 17: The Implications of Moral Hazard for Optimal Insurance Part 5: Growth Theory Chapter 18: The Dynamic Nonsubstitution Theorem Chapter 19: Agreeable Plans Chapter 20: Fairly Good Plans Chapter 21: Optimum Saving with Economies of Scale Part 6: Development Economics Chapter 22: A Pure Theory of Underdeveloped Economies, using a Relationship between Consumption and Productivity Chapter 23: Project Appraisal Planning Twenty Years on