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“Fiscal Illusion Causes Fiscal Delusion – Please Be Careful!”

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Global Security, Safety, and Sustainability (ICGS3 2010)

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Abstract

Although fiscal illusion was first articulated by Puviani (1903), it is a current issue, and its consequences are rather serious, as shown in this paper. Fiscal illusion enlarges the public sector but it can, by itself, be a considerable threat to the trust between the State and its citizens, ultimately promoting serious instability in economic cycles and in democratic institutions.

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  1. Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, University of Minho, Gualtar, 4700, Braga, Portugal

    Paulo Mourao

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  1. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, R. de Camões, Braga, Portugal

    Sérgio Tenreiro de Magalhães

  2. School of Computing and Information Technology and Engineering, University of East London, London,, UK

    Hamid Jahankhani

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    Ali G. Hessami

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Mourao, P. (2010). “Fiscal Illusion Causes Fiscal Delusion – Please Be Careful!”. In: Tenreiro de Magalhães, S., Jahankhani, H., Hessami, A.G. (eds) Global Security, Safety, and Sustainability. ICGS3 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 92. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15717-2_25

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