Generational Accounting around the World

Laurence J Kotlikoff editor Alan J Auerbach editor Willi Leibfritz editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Published:28th Feb '99

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Generational Accounting around the World cover

The realities of mounting government debt, tax burdens, and an ageing population raise serious concerns about the financial legacy confronting future generations. How great a fiscal burden will late-1990s policies leave to subsequent generations, and how might changes in those policies alter the intergenerational distribution of public welfare? Generational accounting has recently emerged as a robust new method of fiscal analysis and planning designed to assess the long-term sustainability of fiscal policy and to measure the extent of the financial load ultimately borne by present and future generations. A seminal contribution to public economics, generational accounting has already been adopted by 23 nations around the world. Combining late-1990s country-by-country generational analyses with a comprehensive review of generational accounting's innovative methodology, these papers are a resource for economists, political scientists and policy makers concerned with fiscal health and responsibility.

ISBN: 9780226032139

Dimensions: 24mm x 16mm x 4mm

Weight: 907g

544 pages