Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue : Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Keen, Michael
Otros Autores: Slemrod, Joel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Plunder and Power
  • 1. Any Public Matter
  • Bengal to Boston
  • Never Such Disgrace
  • Why Bolivia Is Landlocked
  • Taxing the Light of Heaven
  • Not Everything Is About Tax. But . . .
  • 2. The Way We Were
  • A Quick Gallop through the Long History of Taxation
  • How Much?
  • Warfare and Welfare
  • Babbage's Nightmare
  • Debt, Default, and Princes
  • Making Money
  • 3. By Another Name
  • Elizabeth I to Spectrum Auctions
  • Selling Sovereignty
  • Cheap Labor
  • Working for Nothing
  • A Rich Man's War and a Poor Man's Fight
  • Doing Your Bit
  • Paying Your (Feudal) Dues
  • Crossing the Line
  • And There's More
  • Jobs for the Boys
  • A Tax on Stupidity
  • Part II. Winners and Losers
  • 4. Fair Enough
  • Heads on Pikes
  • Poll Taxes and the English
  • Noble Causes
  • Trying to Be Fair
  • Pay for What You Get?
  • Pay What You Can?
  • Show Me a Sign
  • Taxing by Class
  • Taxing by Community
  • Taxing the Finer Things in Life
  • Presumptions of Prosperity
  • 5. This Colossal Engine of Finance
  • The Work of Giants: The Income Tax in Britain
  • The Dred Scott Decision of the Revenue
  • A Crime of Passion and the French Income Tax
  • Old Fears and New Directions
  • 6. Some Are More Equal Than Others
  • Taxing Femininity
  • Peculiar Tax Institutions
  • Leaps of Faith
  • Outsiders
  • Strangers in a Strange Land
  • Taxes as Punishment
  • Hard Choices
  • 7. Stick or Shift?
  • False Starts
  • Burgling Other People's Intellect
  • You Must Remember This
  • Buddy, Can You Spare 1/20th of a Dime?
  • Things Aren't Always What They Seem
  • Helping the Working Poor (or Their Employers)
  • Are Tax-Free Municipal Bonds a Giveaway to the Savvy Rich?
  • The Murky Incidence of the Corporate Tax
  • The Big Picture
  • Part III. Changing Our Ways
  • 8. Breaking Bad and Making Good
  • Do the Right Thing
  • Family Matters
  • Taxing Knowledge
  • Tax Bads, Not Goods
  • Saving the Planet
  • Wind-Breaking Cows, Scary Dogs, and Cute Cats
  • The Wages of Sin
  • The Vile Custome
  • The Curse of the Drinking Classes
  • Sex, . . .
  • . . . Drugs, . . .
  • . . . But Not Much Rock and Roll
  • Unhealthy Living
  • Just Say No?
  • 9. Collateral Damage
  • Spurring Ingenuity
  • Stranger Things
  • Drawing a Line
  • Excess Burden
  • No Fire without Smoke
  • A Window on Excess Burden
  • 10. How to Pluck a Goose
  • Searching for the Holy Grail
  • War Profiteers and the Corporate Tax Revisited
  • Give Me Land, Lots of Land
  • Conscripting Wealth
  • Limiting the Damage
  • The Cleverest Man in England
  • Broaden the Base, Lower the Rate (Maybe)
  • Shaping a Tax System
  • How Many Feathers?
  • 11. Citizens of the World
  • Squeezing a Rice Pudding
  • Havens from the Tax Storm
  • The Rich Are Different from Us
  • They Don't Live Here Any More
  • Don't Tell
  • False Profits
  • If I Were You, I Wouldn't Start from Here
  • A Farewell to Arms (Length Pricing)?
  • Tumbling Taxes

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