Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue : : Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages / / Joel Slemrod, Michael Keen.
A gripping account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Business and Economics 2021 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (536 p.) :; 59 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue
- Part I. Plunder and power
- Part II. Winners and Losers
- Part III. Changing Our Ways
- Part IV. Taxes Don’t Collect Themselves
- Part V. Making Taxes
- Notes
- References
- Illustration Credits
- Index