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Fiscal Policies, Institutions and Taxation


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Fiscal refers to public finance and financial transactions. It includes a government's policy toward taxation, public debt, public appropriations and expenditures, and similar matters. Fiscal policies impact private businesses, NGOs, nonprofits, and the economy at large. Public appropriations and taxation are two powerful tools to encourage or discourage sustainability. In developing nations, public debt and monetary policy are crucial driving forces hampering or helping rid the nation of poverty. Taxation refers to the compulsory payment of money or assets from individuals, businesses, and organizations to the state or government. Taxation can be a tool used by governments to produce environmental and social benefits, such as the taxation of pollution production to create an incentive for businesses to reduce their output of specific pollutants.


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public finance, national banks, national treasury, public appropriations, state budget, taxation, public debt, monetary policy, fiscal monopoly, money, credit, treasury bonds, business, economics, ecological taxes, green taxes, markets, fiscal tools, progress indicator, environmental taxes, externality taxation, tax policy reform, taxation equality, ecological tax reform, economics, business, social taxes, capitalism, progressive taxation, tax haven

"Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt." – William Cobbett
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RSF: Innovations in Social Finance envisions a world where a new consciousness is brought to financial transactions, a future when profit is determined by social and environmental benefit, as well as financial return.

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EarthSharing is a homepage for Geoists - people who understand that nature and economics are inextricably interwoven, the present teaching of economics notwithstanding.


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Med_rff2Adding Environmental Services to an Economy's Scorecard a research paper outling the principles of "green accounting", i.e. including the value of materials and services provided by the environment in national income accounting.

Med_endofpoverty2The End of Poverty a book by Jeffrey D. Sachs, whose twenty-five years of experience observing the world from many vantage points has helped him shed light on the most vital issues facing our planet: the causes of poverty, the role of rich-country policies, and the very real possibilities for a poverty-free future.

Med_environment1Harmonizing Earth Economics Economists have successfully branded themselves as scientists with mathematical exactitude who can artfully negotiate the vagaries of human consumption patterns through pricing mechanisms. Yet the life support systems that sustain the planet have eluded their grasp, and have often been relegated to the residual category of externalities.

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What did Obama mean by a 'market based cap on carbon'?

 

What are the implications of that plan?  This doesn't sound like a carbon tax, or a carbon cap?

 

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