Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation
James Mirrlees
Table of Contents
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