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

Fri Sep 7 14:35:30 UTC 2012

Hi Dirk,

Definitely very interesting. Sleek visualisations are one thing, but
often, the simple stuff is quite often the best...

I would be keen to know whether this is open data. I know many people
who have been interested in doing this type of thing for other parts
of the Eurozone!

Lucy

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Dirk Heine <dirk.heine at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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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