Studies in Economics and Finance: Volume 5 Issue 2

PERSONAL INCOME TAXATION: AN EVALUATION OF THE ARGUMENT FOR A PERSONAL EXPENDITURE TAX

T. RITSON FERGUSON

The fundamental problem of designing a wide scope general revenue tax can be reduced to the selection of the base used for administering the tax. Our current personal income tax…

PREDICTING RESIDENTIAL INVESTMENT

LORI LEACHMAN

Over the past decade economic activity in the United States has been extremely erratic. The economy has experienced high peaks and deep troughs in the business cycle. The first…

PRODUCT LIABILITY: PART I Causes of the Product Liability Crisis

IRENE ROBERTSON, PHIL MANCUSI‐UNGARO, RICK MCGEE, STEVE MELTON

Introduction In the last decade the problem of product liability has become one of the major concerns affecting industry, consumers and government. Product liability, which…