Background
KALDOR, Nicholas was born in 1908 in Budapest, Hungary.
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'This is one of those rare technical books which has an importance outside its own field' The Daily Telegraph. 'One of the most stimulating post-war books on public finance' The Guardian. Part 1 examines the issue of Expenditure Tax in principle and includes chapters on the following: * Income, Expenditure and Taxable Capacity * The Concept of Income in Economic Theory * Taxation and Savings * Taxation and risk-bearing * Taxation and the Incentive to Work * Company Taxation * Taxation and Economic Progress Part 2 examines the issue of Expenditure Tax in practice, asking whether personal expenditure tax is practicable and putting forward a proposal for Surtax Reform.
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KALDOR, Nicholas was born in 1908 in Budapest, Hungary.
Nicholas disliked teaching in Germany. He said: "To be at university in Germany meant that you wandered from one lecture to another without any discipline and without having a clear programme of courses to follow. So he left for England in 1927.
Assistant Lector, Reader Economics, London School of Economies and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, 1932-1947. Research Association National Institute of Economie and Social Research, London, United Kingdom, 1943-1945. Chief, Economics Planning Staff, United States Strategic Bombing Survey, 1945.
Director, Research and Planning Division, ECE, Geneva, 1947-1949. Member, United Nations Group Experts, International Measures for Full Employment, 1949. Fellow, King’s College Cambridge, since 1949.
Reader Economics, Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1952-1965, 75. Member United Kingdom Royal Commission Taxation of Profits and Income, Adviser Tax Reform, Government India, 1956.
Economics Adviser, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America, Santiago, Chile, 1956. Fiscal Adviser,
Governments: Ceylon, 1958, Mexico, 1960, British Guiana, 1961, Turkey, 1962, Iran, 1966, Venezuela, 1976. Ford Visiting Research Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., United States of America, 1959-1960.
Economics Adviser, Government Ghana, 1961. Visiting Economics, Reserve Bank Australia, 1963. Special Adviser, United Kingdom Chancellor Exchequer, 1964-1968, 1974-1976.
Professor Emeritus, Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge, since 1975.
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(Book by Kaldor, Nicholas)
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See my introductions to Collected Economic Essays, particularly vols 1,3, and 5.