Discarding a Utopian Vision for a World Divided: The Effect of Geopolitical Rivalry on the World Trading System
Alan Wm. Wolff The greater danger for the world trading system is not that it is at present being divided into two camps, one led by the United States and the other by China, but that the two largest trading countries, by their lack of adherence to and support for the multilateral trading system, may […]
The road to individual taxation
Felix Bierbrauer, Pierre Boyer, Andreas Peichl, Daniel Weishaar The arguments in favour of reforms towards individual taxation seem convincing, so why have some countries such as the US stuck with the traditional joint taxation of couples? This column develops a toolkit to analyse past reforms in the US, which have retained couples’ joint income as […]