How political illusions harm national security: fiscal illusion as a source of taxation
Fiscal illusion is the most common form of political illusions. This article introduces an agent-based model developed for testing the Fasiani model of fiscal illusion. The Fasiani model introduces fiscal illusion as a source of extra taxation that can lead to an impoverishment of citizens and to nu...
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| Formato: | conferencePaper |
| Idioma: | eng |
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2013
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| Texto completo: | http://hdl.handle.net/1822/23365 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/23365 |
| Resumo: | Fiscal illusion is the most common form of political illusions. This article introduces an agent-based model developed for testing the Fasiani model of fiscal illusion. The Fasiani model introduces fiscal illusion as a source of extra taxation that can lead to an impoverishment of citizens and to null national production after a several periods of increasing levels of fiscal illusion. We modeled this strategy as a “dictator game,” in which we show that a state that constantly deceives its citizens is a source of national instability, deeply harming its national security |
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