This morning, I was invited by my good friend and colleague, Prof. Corina Gochoco-Bautista of the UP School of Economics (UPSE), and now senior economic advisor with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to discuss a paper of Prof. Alberto Simpser of the University of Chicago, a fellow political scientist who has degrees in economics and environmental science. [...]
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The political economy of electoral over-investment
Posted: January 11, 2011 in Alberto Simpser, Boris Yeltsin, Electoral over-investment, Political economy, Russian politics, Vladimir Putin0
Possibilities for transformation Informals are informals not because they want to but because they have to. One cannot fully accept the notion that they choose to be informal because they do not want to pay taxes. Some informals may really want to evade taxes. However, they actually ‘pay’ implicit taxes—the lagay (bribe) to the cops, [...]
The essential features of the different types of economic activity are summarized in the following Table 1. Table 1 Essential Features of Different Types of Economic Activity Type of economic activity Object of transaction Nature of transaction Tax status Receipts/contracts Transacts with ROTW Formal Legal goods & services Voluntary exchange Paying Yes Yes Informal [...]
TNMPPE V
Posted: January 11, 2011 in National Democratic Front, Philippine military, Philippine politics, Political economy, Revolutionary taxesThe (internal) war economy Technically, war economic activity is criminal activity. However, since war-related activity is associated with entities with political or ideological programs and identities (whether real or purported is not yet of consequence to us at this point), it is useful to set it apart as a distinct conceptual category. The war economy [...]
