pola giancarlo

Assessing the impact of increasing calls for wider fiscal autonomy in the UK Spain Switzerland Argentina Brazil Germany Italy and the USA this volume updates and adds significant new context to the debate. Framing the discussion on fiscal autonomy and drawing out ethical considerations it portrays the problems connected with the devolution of responsibilities and financial resources to sections of the population sometimes content to be part of a lower layer of government sometimes aspiring to an asymmetrical position or total independence.