Contents
| Part I: An Introduction to Issues and Methodology | | | 1.1 Normative versus Positive Analysis | 4 |
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| | 1.2 Analysis under Limited Data Availability | 5 |
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| | 1.3 Policy and Political Economy | 6 |
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| | 1.4 General-Equilibrium Analysis | 7 |
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| | 1.5 The Structure of the Book | 8 |
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| | 1.6 The Nature of the Results | 10 |
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| | 1.7 Some Remarks on the Role of Theory | 12 |
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| | 2 The Objectives and Instruments of Government Policy and the Structure of the Economy in LDCs | 15 |
| | 2.1 Stated Objectives of Food-Related Policies | 15 |
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| | 2.2 Putting Agricultural Policies in Perspective | 17 |
| | Other Policy Instruments | 17 |
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| | Limitations on Government Policy | 18 |
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| | Equivalence of Different Policies | 20 |
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| | 2.3 The Economic Structure of LDCs | 21 |
| | The Importance of Agriculture and the Dual Economy | 21 |
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| | Investible Surplus, Private Investment, and Government Consumption | 24 |
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| | Openness of the Economy | 25 |
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| | 3 An Approach to Applied Welfare Economics | 27 |
| | 3.2 Theoretical Background | 27 |
| | General-Equilibrium Analysis | 27 |
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| | Pigouvian Welfare Economics and Optimal Taxation | 28 |
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| | The New Welfare Economics | 29 |
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| | New New Welfare Economics | 29 |
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| | 3.3 Applied Welfare Economics for LDCs | 30 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Peasants versus City-Dwellers: Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development.
Contributors: Raaj K. Sah - Author, Joseph E. Stiglitz - Author.
Publisher: Clarendon Press.
Place of publication: Oxford.
Publication year: 1992.
Page number: ix.
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