The Resource Rebellion, rascals, and revenue : tax follies and wisdom through the ages, Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod

Rebellion, rascals, and revenue : tax follies and wisdom through the ages, Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod

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Rebellion, rascals, and revenue : tax follies and wisdom through the ages
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Rebellion, rascals, and revenue
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tax follies and wisdom through the ages
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Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
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Princeton University Press presents
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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 a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts-and, in repressing it, ended up burning the very huts they intended to tax. Sometimes they succeed astonishingly, as when, in eighteenth-century Britain, a cut in the tax on tea massively increased revenue. In this entertaining book, two leading authorities on taxation, Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod, provide a fascinating and informative tour through these and many other episodes in tax history, both preposterous and dramatic-from the plundering described by Herodotus and an Incan tax payable in lice to the (misremembered) Boston Tea Party and the scandals of the Panama Papers. Along the way, readers meet a colorful cast of tax rascals, and even a few tax heroes. While it is hard to fathom the inspiration behind such taxes as one on ships that tended to make them sink, Keen and Slemrod show that yesterday's tax systems have more in common with ours than we may think. Georgian England's window tax now seems quaint, but was an ingenious way of judging wealth unobtrusively. And Tsar Peter the Great's tax on beards aimed to induce the nobility to shave, much like today's carbon taxes aim to slow global warming
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Keen, Michael
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336.2/009
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tax follies and wisdom through the ages
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Rebellion, rascals, and revenue : tax follies and wisdom through the ages, Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Plunder and power -- Winners and losers -- Changing our ways -- Taxes don't collect themselves -- Making taxes
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25 cm.
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xx, 511 pages
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9780691199542
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(hbk.)
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unmediated
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rdamedia.
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illustrations
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regular print
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Rebellion, rascals, and revenue : tax follies and wisdom through the ages, Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent.
  • rdacontent.
Contents
Plunder and power -- Winners and losers -- Changing our ways -- Taxes don't collect themselves -- Making taxes
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
xx, 511 pages
Isbn
9780691199542
Isbn Type
(hbk.)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
Specific material designation
regular print

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