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Title The new fiscal sociology : taxation in comparative and historical perspective / edited by Isaac William Martin, Ajay K. Mehrotra, Monica Prasad
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary This volume presents sixteen essays by comparative historical scholars who offer a survey of the new fiscal sociology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Taxation -- Social aspects
Fiscal policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
Fiscal policy
Taxation -- Social aspects
Steuerpolitik
Steuerzahler
Steuer
Steuerpolitik.
Steuer.
Sozialpolitik.
Taxering -- sociala aspekter.
Skattepolitik.
USA
Form Electronic book
Author Martin, Isaac William, editor
Mehrotra, Ajay K., 1969- editor.
Prasad, Monica, editor
ISBN 9780511651311
0511651317
9780511627071
0511627076
9786612393280
6612393289
9780511593338
0511593333