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An new annual property tax on the value of each home, proposed by economists Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber, would be fairer than current system, according to a new report by think tank Bright Bl... Read more...
20 May 2021
Free Higher Ed wouldn't enhance equity: students are disproportionately from high-income households, write Ghazala Azmat and Stefania Simion. ... Read more...
12 March 2018
People prefer happiness to income, children, career and education, but being healthy trumps it all, writes Paul Dolan. ... Read more...
07 November 2017
Article by Paul Frijters Taxation is the potential downfall of the EU as an institution. The reason is that within the EU, several member states are making money from the tax evasion in other member states,... Read more...
11 October 2017
Article by Ross Levine; Yona Rubinstein ISSN 0033-5533, EISSN 1531-4650. Related publications ‘In brief...'Smart and illicit': the making of a successful entrepreneur’ R... Read more...
25 May 2017
A dedicated tax is the only way that we can be sure the government is reflecting public wishes, argues Richard Layard, emeritus professor at the London School of Economics. He points out that Britain currently... Read more...
09 February 2017
Britain currently spends less on health as a share of national income than other equivalent countries, according to economist Professor Richard Layard BRITS should pay a dedicated tax to fund the ailin... Read more...
A dedicated tax is the only way that we can be sure the government is reflecting public wishes, says Richard Layard, but John Appleby argues it would not protect funding from economic uncertainty Yes—... Read more...
08 February 2017
In December 2016 an electronic version of a new report became available, prior to its imminent publication in book form, by the London School of Economics. Dubbed ‘The Layard Report’ after key... Read more...
23 January 2017
Health and friends: the formula of happiness according to science According to researcher Lord Richard Layard, people have not increased their levels of happiness in the past 50 years, while the average inc... Read more...
12 January 2017
The old folk saying "If you've got your health you've got your wealth" is finding new proponents from a recent study done by the London College of Economics, under the direction of Lord Richa... Read more...
10 January 2017
A compilation of surveys show that millennial's happiness is closely tied to having close friends at work. Good working relationships seem to make people more productive and satisfied with life. … ... Read more...
Contributing factors include weaker tax revenues and pressure to rein in cuts Question: ‘Do you think the government will need to borrow more than it has forecast in 2017?’ Stephen Mach... Read more...
02 January 2017
A conversation with MIT’s John Van Reenen When we talk about innovators, we normally talk about how someone becomes one—not when. We talk about the success or failure of their experiments, produ... Read more...
16 December 2016
HUGE THREAT TO ECONOMY TO OVERSHADOW TORY BUDGET The Scottish National Party has said that the threat of a hard Brexit will be the ‘elephant in the room’ at the Autumn Statement. “The T... Read more...
20 November 2016
This article was based on the research of Luis Garicano and Thomas N. Hubbard. Rising income inequality in the U.S. may seem like a 21st-century preoccupation, as workers agitate to ''occupy Wall Street'' from the left ... Read more...
16 October 2016
Finally, there is the low reputation of economists, the result of a global financial crisis that only a few in the profession warned us against. But the institutes that analysed the risks and rewards of Brexit can hardly... Read more...
20 July 2016
Rising income inequality in the U.S. may seem like a 21st-century preoccupation, as workers agitate to ''occupy Wall Street'' from the left and to ''make America great again'' from the right. But the wage gap separating ... Read more...
05 July 2016
The OECD published a report analysing the economic consequences of a UK exit from the EU. Presenting the findings of the report at the London School of Economics this morning, Gurria described the impact of leaving the E... Read more...
27 April 2016
Leaving the EU would cause Britain's economy to shrink and tax receipts to plummet, and cost the average household thousands of pounds a year, an official analysis from the UK treasury has warned. The treasury assess... Read more...
18 April 2016
In an article entitled 'Be happy, pay more to the taxman', Professor Richard Layard argues that it is the income gap, rather than total wealth that is most pertinent to people's happiness. Studies show, writes Layard, th... Read more...
08 March 2016
Chancellor George Osborne will struggle to impose further spending cuts over the next five years, most economists believe. Question: Fiscal policy: Please explain which of the below statements is closest to your views.... Read more...
03 January 2016
And just to be clear, having a kid isn't worse for you than unemployment or losing a spouse, even though that's what the new study found. Nick Powdthavee, a happiness researcher at the London School of Economics and the ... Read more...
26 November 2015
In his speech Sanders also cited a remarkable statistic: 0.1 percent of American families enjoy almost as much as wealth 90 percent of the rest of the country put together. In 2014 just 160,000 families - each with a ne... Read more...
21 November 2015
Look out, Thomas Piketty. Here comes Gabriel Zucman. With a slim new book that has the feel of Piketty's bestselling Capital in the 21st Century, Zucman, a baby-faced 28-year-old University of California-Berkeley econom... Read more...
21 September 2015
We decided to examine Sanders' statement that the richest 0.1 percent has nearly as much as the bottom 90 percent. Its a standard line in Sanders' speeches. Warren Gunnels, policy director of Sanders' presidential campai... Read more...
Economists Emmanuel Saez of the University of California-Berkeley and Gabriel Zucman of the London School of Economics have been studying wealth inequality for a long time. Here is their graph of the divergence in wealth... Read more...
10 September 2015
...realisee par Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, professeur d'economie à la London School of Economics, montre au contraire,... Tax-shift: A Government of the 1% who are greatly mistaken However, the reasoning of the Governmen... Read more...
01 September 2015
It remains unclear whether the levy would be introduced as a one-off cost or an annual tax. Sir David Metcalf, a former London School of Economics professor who chairs the MAC, echoed Lloyds yesterday, saying that as a r... Read more...
14 August 2015
For the first question, the argument for lowering the rate is that a higher rate makes people behave in such a way that there is less income to be taxed in the first place. So a higher rate may not bring in much more mon... Read more...
25 June 2015
A new paper by Mr Saez and Gabriel Zucman of the London School of Economics reckons past estimates badly underestimated the share of wealth belonging to the very rich. It uses a richer variety of sources than prior studi... Read more...
22 June 2015
John Van Reenen examines the spending plans of the three major parties over the next Parliament, finding that, while all are currently planning for continued and severe austerity, the Conservatives' plan would bring down... Read more...
12 March 2015
It is likely that there will be tax increases after the election whoever wins, concludes a new report from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), based at LSE, in the latest in a series of background briefings on the... Read more...
11 March 2015
According to a study by Professor Gabriel Zucman, of the London School of Economics, quoted by MM, on 26 November, at least 8 percent of the world's wealth, or about $7.6 trillion, are in private accounts in tax havens. ... Read more...
02 February 2015
Skype lax tax in Luxembourg Luxembourg signed that Janus Friis' booming IT giant worth nothing, shortly before it was sold for 19 billion kr. According to a new leak of secret treasures agreements. The French economist... Read more...
09 December 2014
Los calculos, del economista frances de la London School of Economics Gabriel Zucman, basados principalmente en datos del Banco Central Suizo, del Tesoro estadounidense y de estimaciones a partir de fuentes y calculos in... Read more...
08 December 2014
Pour Gabriel Zucman, professeur a la London School of Economics et specialiste des paradis fiscaux, la decision britannique de taxer les profits realises au Royaume-Uni va d'ailleurs dans le bon sens. ''Dans le principe,... Read more...
04 December 2014
Poll respondent Sir Christopher Pissarides, professor at the London School of Economics, said the prospect that governments in London and Edinburgh would compete to attract taxpayers would far outweigh any gains; and adm... Read more...
21 November 2014
Article by Joan Costa-i-Font and Valentina Zigante Several countries across Europe have attempted to reform their health systems by allowing patients more choice over their healthcare provider. The typical rationale for... Read more...
Article by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Cait Lamberton and Michael Norton Non-compliance with tax costs governments billions, in part because people really don't like paying taxes. This column reports two experiments designed ... Read more...
30 May 2014
Research by Professors Cait Lamberton, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Michael Norton suggests that the annual tax filing process offers an unexploited opportunity for governments to engage with taxpayers - and one that could ... Read more...
29 May 2014
Lessons from behavioural economics can boost tax compliance In another new paper researchers [from the Centre for Economic Performance and Harvard Business School] investigate whether these receipts work as intended. Th... Read more...
24 May 2014