Peasants versus City-Dwellers: Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development

PREFACE
Contents
PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO ISSUES AND METHODOLOGY
	1. INTRODUCTION
		1.1 Normative versus Positive Analysis
		1.2 Analysis under Limited Data Availability
		1.3 Policy and Political Economy
		1.4 General-Equilibrium Analysis
		1.5 The Structure of the Book
		1.6 The Nature of the Results
		1.7 Some Remarks on the Role of Theory
	2. THE OBJECTIVES AND INSTRUMENTS OF GOVERNMENT POLICY AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY IN LDCs
		2.1 Stated Objectives of Food-Related Policies
		2.2 Putting Agricultural Policies in Perspective
		2.3 The Economic Structure of LDCs
		2.4 Concluding Remarks
	3. AN APPROACH TO APPLIED WELFARE ECONOMICS
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 Theoretical Background
		3.3 Applied Welfare Economics for LDCs
PART II: INTER-SECTORAL TAXATION POLICIES
	4. RURAL-URBAN PRICES IN OPEN ECONOMIES
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 A Simple Model
		4.3 Analysis of Changes in Agricultural and Industrial Prices
		4.4 Price-Productivity Effects
		Appendix
	5. THE PRICE SCISSORS IN OPEN ECONOMIES
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 Effects on the Investible Surplus of Changes in the Price Scissors
		5.3 Welfare Effects of Changing the Price Scissors
		5.4 Optimal Price Scissors
		5.5 Concluding Remarks
	6. THE PRICE SCISSORS IN CLOSED AND PARTIALLY CLOSED SOCIALIST ECONOMIES
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 The Model
		6.3 Reform in the Price Scissors
		6.4 Optimal Price Scissors
		6.5 Economies with Traded and Non-Traded Goods
		6.6 Concluding Remarks
		Appendix
	7. THE SOVIET INDUSTRIALIZATION DEBATE AND COLLECTIVIZATION
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 Preobrazhensky\'s Propositions
		7.3 The Correct Size of the Price Scissors
		7.4 Collectivization
		7.5 A Postscript on the Soviet Debate
PART III: THE RURAL SECTOR
	8. INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND ALTERNATIVE ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS WITHIN THE RURAL SECTOR
		8.1 Introduction
		8.2 Distributional Effects
		8.3 Alternative Forms of Rural Organization
		8.4 Effects of Wages and Prices on Rural Productivity
		8.5 Concluding Remarks
	9. TAXES AND SUBSIDIES ON DIFFERENT GOODS IN THE RURAL SECTOR
		9.1 Introduction
		9.2 A General Formulation
		9.3 Informationally Parsimonious Pareto-Improving Price Reforms for Cash-Crops and Manufactured Inputs
		9.4 Should Some Cash-Crops or Manufactured Inputs be Taxed and Others Subsidized?
		9.5 Some Caveats
		Appendix
PART IV: THE URBAN SECTOR
	10. THE IMPACT OF URBAN WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT DETERMINATION ON TAXATION POLICIES
		10.1 Introduction
		10.2 A General Formulation of Urban Wage-Determination
		10.3 Urban-Rural Prices with an Endogenous Urban Wage
		10.4 Price Scissors with Endogenous Wages
		10.5 Endogenous Urban Wage versus Government-Controlled Urban Wage: Which is the Appropriate Assumption for LDCs?
		10.6 Note on the Urban Wage Fixed in Terms of the Utility Level
		10.7 Urban Unemployment
	11. SOME ASPECTS OF THE WAGE-PRODUCTIVITY HYPOTHESIS THAT ARE RELEVANT FOR TAXATION ANALYSIS
		11.1 Introduction
		11.2 Why Do Wages and Prices Affect Productivity?
		11.3 A Model of Wages, Prices, Productivity, and Unemployment
	12. TAXES AND SUBSIDIES ON DIFFERENT GOODS IN THE URBAN SECTOR
		12.1 Introduction
		12.2 A General Formulation
		12.3 Generalizations
		Appendix
	13. TAX POLICY IN THE PRESENCE OF MIGRATION AND URBAN UNEMPLOYMENT
		13.1 Introduction
		13.2 The General Migration Relationship
		13.3 Rural-Urban Prices
		13.4 Pareto-Efficient Urban Taxes on Different Goods
		13.5 Concluding Remarks
		Appendix
	14. TAXATION IN THE URBAN SECTOR: SOME ASPECTS OF THE UNDERLYING MODEL
		14.1 Introduction
		14.2 A General ModeI of the Urban Sector
		14.3 Inefficiency of Market Equilibrium
		14.4 Interdependence of Demand and Supply of Urban Labour
		14.5 Concluding Remarks
	15. THE SOCIAL COST OF LABOUR
		15.1 Introduction
		15.2 The Model
		15.3 Special Cases
		15.4 Concluding Remarks
	16. CONCLUDING REMARKS
		16.1 Some Key Issues
		16.2 Political Economy Considerations
		16.3 The Policy Predicament
References
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