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UK Budget Appeals to Adam Smith's Approach to Taxes... Sort of

by Benjamin Mitra-Kahn on March 22, 2012 8 comments

Yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer (or UK 'finance minister') gave his annual budget speech where UK fiscal policy is set for the coming years. In announcing his tax changes he name-dropped Adam Smith as the inspiration for his objectives on tax:

Two hundred years ago, Adam Smith set out the four principles of good taxation - and they remain good principles today. Taxes should be simple, predictable, support work, and they should be fair. The rich should pay the most, and the poor least. George Osbourne, 21 March 2011

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@INET-BW: Anglo-Saxons versus the Germans

by Floris Heukelom on April 10, 2011

By Floris Heukelom

Cross-posted from History of Economics Playground

For one and a half days we had Anglo-Saxons talking finance and financial crisis: Keynesian stimuli, surplus countries bashing, drawing China in, and bullying of the Euro area and in particular Germany’s role in it. Read more

A Stop on the Campus Tour: UC Berkeley

In this documentary-style video, INET Executive Director Rob Johnson meets and interacts with students and professors at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Economics. This is one stop on INET's Campus Tour, which is going to graduate schools all over the country.

Estimating the Financial Sector's Contribution to the Economy - Andy Haldane

Andy Haldane speaks at a Future of Finance event on July 14, 2010 at the London School of Economics. The conference was held to bring together top economists to discuss what went wrong leading up to the financial crisis, and how the financial sector can be reformed.