The Underground Economies: Tax Evasion and Information Distortion.

Abstract

List of contributors Preface Introduction Edgar L. Feige Part I. The Meaning, Measurement and Policy Implications of the Underground Economies: 1. The meaning and measurement of the underground economy Edgar L. Feige 2. Information distortions in social systems: the underground economy and other observer-subject-policymaker feedbacks Robert R. Alford and Edgar L. Feige 3. Policy illusion, macroeconomic instability and the unrecorded economy Robert T. McGee and Edgar L. Feige 4. How large (or small) should the underground economy be? Bruno Frey Part II. The Underground Economy in Western Developed Nations: Measurement in Different Laboratories: 5. Monetary perspective on underground economic activity in the United States Richard D. Porter and Amanda S. Bayer 6. The unrecorded economy and the national income accounts in the Netherlands: a sensitivity analysis G. A. A. M. Broesterhuizen 7. Assessing the underground economy in the United Kingdom Michael O'Higgins 8. The underground economy in the Federal Republic of Germany: a preliminary assessment Enno Langfeldt 9. The underground economy in Sweden Ingemar Hansson 10. The irregular economy of Italy: a survey of contributions Bruno Contini 11. The hidden economy in Norway with special emphasis on the hidden labor market Arne Jon Isachsen and Steiner Strom 12. Canada's underground economy Rolf Mirus and Roger S. Smith 13. The underground economy in France Philippe Barthelemy Part III. The Underground Economy Under Central Planning: 14. The Soviet second economy in a political and legal perspective F. J. M. Feldbrugge 15. Second economy and socialism: the Hungarian experience Istvan R. Gabor Bibliography.