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Making the modern American fiscal state : law, politics, and the rise of progressive taxation, 1877-1929 /
"At the turn of the twentieth century, the U.S. system of public finance underwent a dramatic transformation. The late nineteenth-century regime of indirect, hidden, partisan, and regressive taxes was eclipsed in the early twentieth century by a direct, transparent, professionally administered,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. The Old Fiscal Order
- 1. The Growing Social Antagonism: Partisan Taxation and the Early Resistance to Fiscal Reform
- 2. The Gradual Demise: Modern Forces, New Concepts, and Economic Crisis
- Part II. The Rise of the Modern Fiscal State
- 3. The Response to Pollock: Navigating an Intellectual Middle Ground
- 4. The Factories of Fiscal Innovation: Institutional Reform at the State and Local Level
- 5. Corporate Capitalism and Constitutional Change: The Legal Foundations of the Modern Fiscal State
- Part III. Consolidating the New Fiscal Order
- 6. Lawyers, Guns, and Public Monies: The U.S. Treasury, World War I, and the Administration of the Modern Fiscal State
- 7. The Paradox of Retrenchment: Postwar Republican Ascendancy and the Resiliency of the Modern Fiscal State
- Conclusion.