The Mirrlees Review brought together a high-profile group of international experts to identify the characteristics of a good tax system for any developed economy in the 21st century. Mainly using the US and the UK as running examples, the lecture will discuss its lessons and empirical foundations, in particular with respect to earnings taxation, inequality and human capital investment.
Sir Richard Blundell is the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at University College London. He is the Director of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy and of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, both in the United Kingdom. He has made lasting contributions to labor economics, public finance, and applied econometrics. His research covers the empirical microeconomic study of consumer behavior, savings, labor supply, taxation, welfare, innovation and inequality. Among other works, he has developed econometric methods for intertemporal decisions over labor supply, human capital and consumption, family labor supply behavior, dynamic panel data models, and nonparametric analysis of individual decisions.
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