Jan Toporowski
How to Pay for the Coronavirus Emergency The Fiscal Challenge
Toporowski, Jan; Jump, Robert
Authors
Robert Jump
Abstract
The coronavirus emergency presents the British Government with the greatest fiscal challenge since the Second World War. While the course of the emergency will be determined by the nature of the infection and the arrangements for dealing with it, the course of the recovery from the epidemic will be determined by the financing of the emergency, whether this is done by the government, or left to households and firms running up private debt. The quickest recovery will be obtained by maintaining a high level of government borrowing serviced by taxes on wealth and profits. This would reverse some of the regressive features of the epidemic which is exacerbating an unequal distribution of income and wealth.
Citation
Toporowski, J., & Jump, R. (2021). How to Pay for the Coronavirus Emergency The Fiscal Challenge. International Journal of Public Law and Policy, 7(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPLAP.2021.115005
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 25, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | May 12, 2021 |
Publication Date | May 12, 2021 |
Deposit Date | Jul 3, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 3, 2020 |
Journal | International Journal of Public Law and Policy |
Print ISSN | 2044-7663 |
Electronic ISSN | 2044-7671 |
Publisher | Inderscience |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 7 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 1-13 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPLAP.2021.115005 |
Keywords | coronavirus costs, fiscal policy, taxation, government debt, debt management, Keynes, Kalecki |
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