Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 8, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780198295211
First sentence: In a lecture that will deal chiefly with ignorance, it may seem natural to begin with Adam Smith's most famous contribution to economics, his vision of independent selfish beings who by living and working together in the economic system somehow do what is best for one another.