Tobin Tax

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

"TOBIN TAX" ON G-7 AGENDA.
The tax on international electronic currency transactions and the transfer
of  information electronically will be on the agenda at June's G-7 summit
in Halifax.  The tax was first proposed  by Nobel Prize winning economist
James Tobin and was recently  supported at the recent UN Summit on Social
Development by Canada and France.  (Toronto Financial Post 3/15/95 p. 4)