The Tobin Tax - Coping with Financial Volatility (Hardcover)

In his 1972 Janeway Lectures at Princeton, James Tobin, the 1981 Nobel Prize winner for economics, submitted a proposal for a levy on international currency transactions. The idea was not greeted with enthusiasm, as the 1970s were a period of optimism and confidence in floating exchange rages. Yet, whenever currency crises erupted during the past decades, the proposal for a levy on international currency transactions would once again arise. In the 1990s, two additional facts have sharpened interest in the Tobin tax proposal. First is the growing volume of foreign exchange trading. Second, interest is coming not only from policymakers and experts concerned with the smooth functioning of financial markets. It is shared by those concerned with public financing of development--the fiscal crisis of the state as well as the growing need for international cooperation on problems such as the environment, poverty, peace and security.
This work makes a systematic analysis of the proposal for a foreign exchange transactions levy. Its chapters examine the economic desirability of such a levy, its technical and political feasibility, its revenue potential, the possible uses of that revenue, and related administrative and institutional aspects.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1996
First published:	July 1996
Editors:	Mahbub Ul Haq (Director) • Inge Kaul (Director of the Office of Develoment Studies) • Isabelle Grunberg (Senior Policy Analyst)
Dimensions:	242 x 163 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-511180-4
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > General Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > Public finance > Taxation Books > Money & Finance > Public finance > Taxation Promotions
LSN:	0-19-511180-X
Barcode:	9780195111804

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