[OpenSpending] Visualisation of fiscal policy by Landais, Piketty and Saez

[Dirk Heine]

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<http://www.stanford.edu/~landais/cgi-bin/index.php>,
Thomas Piketty <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty> and Emanuel
Saez <http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~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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