Invisible, outlawed, and untaxed : America's underground economy / Harry I. Greenfield.
1993
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Author
Title
Invisible, outlawed, and untaxed : America's underground economy / Harry I. Greenfield.
Published
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1993.
Call Number
HD2346.U5 G74 1993
ISBN
0275945073 (alk. paper)
9780275945077 (alk. paper)
9780275945077 (alk. paper)
Description
xii, 137 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
ZBWT00489428
System Control No.
(OCoLC)26934913
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [127]-133) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1
Aboveground and Underground
1
Getting a Handle on the Underground Economy
1
A Suggestion for Simplifying the Concept of the Underground Economy
2
An Overview of the Underground
6
Functions and Motives
13
Who and Why
14
The Aboveground and Underground Interface
15
2
On the Trail: Monetary Clues or Cherchez le Cash
19
More Cash in a Cashless Society
19
Money Supply: The Primary Suspect
23
Blind Alley - Try Again
27
On the Wrong Trail?
29
3
Tax Evasion and Other Behavioral Clues
35
The Trails Diverge: Macro versus Micro
35
The Tax Beaters
36
A Partial Lifting of the Veil - Courtesy of the IRS
40
The Macro Level Once Again
44
The Micro Level: Buying and Selling in the Underground Economy
46
4
Sectoral Clues: The Building Block Approach
51
The Building's Framework
51
Block Number One - Drugs
52
Block Number Two - Illegal Gambling
56
Block Number Three - Prostitution and Pornography
58
Block Number Four - Illegal Abortion
61
Block Number Five - Child Pornography
62
Block Number Six - Audio, Video, and Software Piracy
62
More Blocks - Cigarette Smuggling, Loan Sharking, Bartering, and Skimming
63
The House that Estimates Built
64
Addendum
65
5
Labor Market Clues
73
Will the Real Underground Labor Force Stand Up and Be Counted?
73
Some Notes on the Demand and Supply of Underground Labor
75
Where Have All the Workers Gone?
76
Are They Employed?
77
What Do the Numbers Show?
78
The Employment-to-Population Ratio
83
Are They Unemployed?
84
Aliens and Moonlighters
87
Pick a Number
88
6
A Brief Glance at the Underground Economies Abroad
93
Forenote
93
Part I - Industrialized Nations
95
Part II - Developing and Newly Industrialized Countries
98
7
Economic Consequences of the Underground Economy
105
Information, Misinformation, and Disinformation
105
Procyclical, Countercyclical, or Cycle-Neutral?
109
Back to the Drawing Board
110
Resource Shifts and Economic Efficiency
113
Tax Cuts and Their Effects
114
Revenue Loss and Its Consequence
116
Tax Morality
117
Illuminating the Shadows
117
8
Trail's End: Conclusion
123
Bibliography
127
Index
135