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Raja Chelliah memorial lecture series – The termites of the State: Why the Normative and Positive Roles of Governments Differ by Vito Tanzi published by National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (3/2011). “On the Desirable or Normative Role…

Pandemics and the role of governments by Vito Tanzi published by Akadémiai Kiadó (8/2021). The recent pandemic has raised fundamental questions about the traditional role of government. That role has stressed the pursuit of national interests and identified the…

Economic Theory Versus Economic Reality: Dealing with Pandemics and Other Global Public Goods and Bads by Vito Tanzi published by National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (11/2021). Abstract In democratic countries with market economies, there is the presumption…

Fragile Futures (Tanzi)

Fragile Futures: The Uncertain Economics of Disasters, Pandemics, and Climate Change by Vito Tanzi published by Cambridge University Press (5/2022). This book revisits a distinction introduced in 1921 by economists Frank Knight and John Maynard Keynes: that between statistically…

Pandemics and the role of governments by Vito Tanzi published by Akademiai Kiad (6/2021). The recent pandemic has raised fundamental questions about the traditional role of government. That role has stressed the pursuit of national interests and identified the…