Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation

Nobel Prize-winning economist James Mirrlees is one of the world's leading figures in welfare, development, and public sector economics. This volume brings together for the first time twenty-three of his seminal papers on welfare economics, tax theory, public expenditure, contract theory,growth theory, and development economics.Academic and professional economists, particularly those interested in welfare, development, and public sector economics, will find this collection invaluable.