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This volume presents seven theoretical essays examining the effects of capital income taxation on the behavior of firms. It examines optimal tax design, firm financial policy, and inflation. The essays demonstrate the powerful role taxes play in shaping the behavior of American corporations, and also provide insights into the task of tax reform.

The Law of the Sea (LOS) treaty resulted from some of the most complicated multilateral negotiations ever conducted. Bargaining produced a sophisticated agreement on the financial aspects of deep ocean mining and on the financing of a new international mining entity. Sebenius analyzes those negotiations and the U.S. rejection of their results.

This book assesses the effects of spatially concentrated programs for housing and neighborhood improvement. These programs provide direct assistance to low-income property owners in an attempt to arrest neighborhood decline and encourage revitalization.

What determines the rate of growth, the distribution of income, and the structure of relative prices under capitalism? What, in short, makes capitalist economies tick? This watershed treatise analyzes the answers to these questions provided by three major theoretical traditions: neoclassical, neo-Marxian, and neo-Keynesian.

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