Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 511 pages)
,
illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:
0691199981
,
9780691199986
Content:
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
Content:
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
Content:
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
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-493) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691199542
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Keen, Michael, 1956 - Rebellion, rascals, and revenue Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2021 ISBN 9780691199542
Additional Edition:
ISBN 069119954X
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Steuer
;
Steuersystem
;
Besteuerungsprinzip
;
Geschichte
;
Electronic books
Author information:
Slemrod, Joel 1951-
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