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The new fiscal sociology : taxation in comparative and historical perspective / edited by Isaac William Martin, Ajay K. Mehrotra, Monica Prasad.
LIBRA HJ2305 .N49 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taxation--Social aspects.
- Taxation.
- Fiscal policy.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- The thunder of history: the origins and development of the new fiscal sociology / Isaac William Martin, Ajay K. Mehrotra, Monica Prasad
- "The unfair advantage of the few": the New Deal origins of "soak the rich" taxation / Joseph J. Thorndike
- What Americans think of taxes / Andrea Louise Campbell
- Read their lips: taxation and the right-wing agenda / Fred Block
- Making taxes the life of the party / Christopher Howard
- The politics of demanding sacrifice: applying insights from fiscal sociology to the study of AIDS policy and state capacity / Evan S. Lieberman
- The end of the strong state?: on the evolution of Japanese tax policy / Eisaku Ide, Sven Steinmo
- War and taxation: when does patriotism overcome the free-rider impulse? / Naomi Feldman, Joel Slemrod
- Liberty, democracy, and capacity: lessons from the early American tax regimes / Robin L. Einhorn
- Extraction and democracy / Charles Tilly
- Improving tax administration in contemporary African states: lessons from history / Edgar Kiser, Audrey Sacks
- Adam Smith and the search for an ideal tax system / Beverly Moran
- Where's the sex in fiscal sociology?: taxation and gender in comparative perspective / Edward McCaffery
- The Shoup mission to Japan: two political economies intersect / W. Elliot Brownlee
- Epilogue: A Renaissance for fiscal sociology? / John L. Campbell.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780521738392
- 0521738393
- 9780521494274
- 0521494273
- OCLC:
- 298670845
- Publisher Number:
- 99934629483
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