The underground economy in the United States and abroad / edited by Vito Tanzi.

Part I. General Aspects, 1 -- Chapter 1. Measuring the Hidden Economy: Though This Be Madness, There Is Method in It / Bruno S. Frey and Werner W. Pommerehne, 3 -- Chapter 2. Clandestine Employment: A Problem of Our Times / Raffaele De Grazia,29 -- Part II. The Underground Economy in the United States, 45 -- Chapter 3. America's Underground Economy / Barry Molefsky, 47 -- Chapter 4. Underground Economy and Tax Evasion in the United States: Estimates and Implications / Vito Tanzi, 69 -- Chapter 5. The Direct Approach to Measuring the Underground Economy in the United States: IRS Estimates of Unreported Income / Berdj Kenadjian, 93 -- Chapter 6. A Second (and More Skeptical) Look at the Underground Economy in the United States / Vito Tanzi, 103 -- Chapter 7. Statement of Robert Parker / Robert Parker and John Gorman, 119 -- Chapter 8. The Irregular Economy and the Quality of Macroeconomic Statistics / Peter Reuter, 125 -- Part III. The Underground Economy in Some European Countries -- Chapter 9. A Glimpse of the Hidden Economy in the National Accounts of the United Kingdom / Kerrick Macafee, 147 -- viii. The Underground Economy in the U.S. and Abroad -- Chapter 10. What Do We Know about the Black Economy in the United Kingdom? / Andrew Dilnot and CN. Morris, 163 -- Chapter 11. Recent Empirical Surveys and Theoretical Interpretations of the Parallel Economy in Italy / Daniela Del Boca and Francesco Forte, 181 -- Chapter 12. The Second Economy of Italy / Bruno Contini, 199 -- Chapter 13. The Hidden Economy in Norway / Arne Jon Isachsen, Jan Tore Klovland, and Steinar Stram, 209 -- Chapter 14. The Underground Economy in a High Tax Country: The Case of Sweden / Ingemar Hansson, 233 -- Chapter 15. The Second Economy of the USSR / Gregory Grossman, 245 -- Part IV. The Underground Economy in Selected Other Countries, 271 -- Chapter 16. Canada's Irregular Economy / Rolf Mirus and Roger S. Smith, 273 -- Chapter 17. Illegal Trade Transactions and the Underground Economy of Colombia / Roberto Junguito and Carlos Caballero, 285 -- Chapter 18. The Underground Economy in Australia / Mark Tucker, 315 -- Chapter 19. Estimate of Tax Evasion in Israel, 323 -- Index, 333 -- List of Contributors, 339 -- About the Editor, 341.