Taxation and the Losses of Nations (Tideman & Plassmann)
Tideman and Plassmann's chapter in The Losses of Nations (Harrison ed., 1998) quantifying the deadweight losses of conventional taxation across the G7 and the output gains from shifting to rent-based revenue — the movement's headline excess-burden calculation.
Summary
In The Losses of Nations: Deadweight Politics versus Public Rent Dividends (Fred Harrison ed., Othila Press, 1998), Nicolaus Tideman and Florenz Plassmann calculate the deadweight losses of conventional taxation across the G7 and the output gains available from shifting revenue onto land rent — the figure Harrison's Boom Bust carries as roughly $7 trillion of foregone output (Ch. 14 §2), and an ancestor of Tideman's later per-worker gains estimates and the 2021 super-stimulus modeling.[1] Stub pending full read: [VERIFY: the exact G7 loss figure, year basis, and method on direct read — do not cite magnitudes until confirmed against the chapter text.]
See Also
- Deadweight Loss · Land rent could fund government
- Goodhart, Hudson, Kumhof & Tideman (2021) — the modern successor
- Harrison, Boom Bust (book) — carries the figure at Ch. 14
Sources
- Nicolaus Tideman & Florenz Plassmann, in Fred Harrison (ed.), The Losses of Nations (Othila Press, 1998). PDF (sharetherents mirror) — used for thesis and venue (A-claims; full text unfetched from this environment). Carried into the wiki via Boom Bust, Ch. 14 §2 (Heavy scan).