[open-economics] Visualisation of fiscal policy by Landais, Piketty and Saez

Tue Sep 4 18:30:09 UTC 2012

Thanks for dropping those links.

If only I could manage to understand the fiscal policies and their impact on the eurocrisis myself, I'd be more than happy to try helping others to understand it too.

–Gregor

Am 03.09.2012 um 21:30 schrieb Dirk Heine <dirk.heine at okfn.org>:

> This is to OKF colleagues with an interest in fiscal policy / the eurocrisis:
> 
> One of the deeper reasons for the Euro-crisis is the way effective tax contributions developed in most countries since the big changes of fiscal policy in the 1980s (for starters, quickly see the diagrams in http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/dae/repec/cam/pdf/cwpe0927.pdf). And a big problem in Europe today is that those reasons for the crisis are far from Open Knowledge.
> 
> Now, three French fiscal economists did the computations for what I believe might be among the most exciting fiscal data at the moment. http://www.revolution-fiscale.fr/ by Camille Landais, Thomas Piketty and Emanuel Saez.
> 
> You might not like the way the data is visualised, but the data quality is impressive. In fact, does that match -great data, with incredible cross-country economic and political relevance, but poor visualisation- make it interesting to OKF?
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Dirk
> 
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