Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 146 p)
,
ill
ISBN:
9781848449183
Series Statement:
Studies in fiscal federalism and state-local finance
Content:
Can the UK survive widespread dissatisfaction in both Scotland and England with the financing of public spending by Scotland's parliament? This timely book explains how fiscal autonomy could raise economic growth and efficiency in Scotland- to the benefit of both Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom. The authors discuss how other reform proposals - which amount to cutting Scotland's block grant - would fail as they would not be seen in Scotland as legitimate. They conclude that fiscal autonomy would be accepted as it reduces Scotland's democratic deficit in public spending, and would go a long way toward reducing vertical and horizontal imbalances in the UK
Content:
1. Introduction -- 2. Searching for a politically and economically rational public funding model for Scotland -- 3. The economic case for fiscal devolution -- 4. Objectives of an effective fiscal federal system -- 5. Fiscal federalism : a Scottish perspective -- 6. The case for Scottish fiscal autonomy -- 7. A restatement of the case for Scottish fiscal autonomy -- 8. Fiscal devolution in some other countries -- 9. Empirical evidence : tax devolution and prosperity -- 10. A separate currency for Scotland? -- 11. Conclusion
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848440425 (hardback)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1848440421 (hbk.)
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hallwood, Paul The political economy of financing Scottish government Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, 2009 ISBN 1848440421
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848440425
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Schottland
;
Finanzwirtschaft
;
Fiskalföderalismus
DOI:
10.4337/9781848449183
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