TY - BOOK AU - Feige,Edgar L (ed) TI - The Underground economies: tax evasion and information distortion SN - 0521032849 U1 - 339 PY - 2006/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Black economy KW - Informal sector (Economics) N1 - The essays in this volume examine the problems of defining,measuring. and understanding the implications of the underground economics that have emerged in many of the world's developed nations. Empirical chapters examine the conceptual problem of how to measure a phenomenon that attempts to defy detection. Alternative measurement procedures arc evaluated. Specific studies arc included for the United States. the Netherlands. the United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden, Italy, Norway. Canada. France, the Soviet Union and Hungary ER -