In this book Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and co-author Raaj Sah address one of
development's major issues. During the early phases of economic development, there are …

Page 1 THE How Taxes Came to Dominate the Public Agenda TAX DECADE C. Eugene
Steuerle Page 2 Page 3 The Tax Decade Page 4 C. EUGENE STEUERLE Page 5 The Tax …

Regular, periodic taxation is a function of modern government, a practice that arose only
because the rent of land and natural resources was transformed from the traditional source …

\Nhen he arrived at the White House in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt inherited a regressive tax
system. Excise taxes—most levied on consumer goods—provided more than half of all …

As the title and subtitle of this book together indicate, I believe that the principal ways to tax
reform and improvement of our federal tax system lie in the concept of tax expenditures. The …

This review uses theories of political economy to provide an analytical history of systems of
taxation, focusing on the determinants of total tax revenue, tax structure, and tax …

United States Taxes and Tax Policy supplements and complements the theoretical material
on taxes found in public finance texts using a combination of institutional, theoretical and …

Since the introduction of the income tax in 1913, controversy has raged about how heavily to
tax the rich. Opponents of high tax rates claim that heavy assessments have negative …

As the editors of this volume remind us in their introduction, the comparative and historical
study of taxation should be a field of considerable importance because taxes—and …

This volume brings together the contributions of twenty-four economists and lawyers on tax
policy. Five papers build on the work of Joseph A. Pechman in analyzing the distribution of …