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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 |
| Autore | Keen Michael |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 online resource 537 p.) |
| Disciplina | 336.2009 |
| Soggetto topico | Taxation - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
America
China English France Great Britain Hut Tax War Japan Maori New Zealand United States VAT Vlad the Impaler ancient taxes anecdotes bizarre cheating death and taxes deduction dog tax dumbest taxes evasion exemption failed haven history of taxation modern taxes origin of income tax poll protests revenue sales smartest taxes stamp strangest taxes successful tariffs tax revolts tax use weird |
| ISBN | 0-691-19998-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Searching for the Holy Grail -- War Profiteers and the Corporate Tax Revisited -- Give Me Land, Lots of Land -- Conscripting Wealth -- Limiting the Damage -- The Cleverest Man in England -- Broaden the Base, Lower the Rate (Maybe) -- Shaping a Tax System -- How Many Feathers? -- 11. Citizens of the World -- Squeezing a Rice Pudding -- Havens from the Tax Storm -- The Rich Are Different from Us -- They Don't Live Here Any More -- Don't Tell -- False Profits -- If I Were You, I Wouldn't Start from Here -- A Farewell to Arms (Length Pricing)? -- Tumbling Taxes
The Big Picture -- Part III. Changing Our Ways -- 8. Breaking Bad and Making Good -- Do the Right Thing -- Family Matters -- Taxing Knowledge -- Tax Bads, Not Goods -- Saving the Planet -- Wind-Breaking Cows, Scary Dogs, and Cute Cats -- The Wages of Sin -- The Vile Custome -- The Curse of the Drinking Classes -- Sex, . . . -- . . . Drugs, . . . -- . . . But Not Much Rock and Roll -- Unhealthy Living -- Just Say No? -- 9. Collateral Damage -- Spurring Ingenuity -- Stranger Things -- Drawing a Line -- Excess Burden -- No Fire without Smoke -- A Window on Excess Burden -- 10. How to Pluck a Goose A Crime of Passion and the French Income Tax -- Old Fears and New Directions -- 6. Some Are More Equal Than Others -- Taxing Femininity -- Peculiar Tax Institutions -- Leaps of Faith -- Outsiders -- Strangers in a Strange Land -- Taxes as Punishment -- Hard Choices -- 7. Stick or Shift? -- False Starts -- Burgling Other People's Intellect -- You Must Remember This -- Buddy, Can You Spare 1/20th of a Dime? -- Things Aren't Always What They Seem -- Helping the Working Poor (or Their Employers) -- Are Tax-Free Municipal Bonds a Giveaway to the Savvy Rich? -- The Murky Incidence of the Corporate Tax Doing Your Bit -- Paying Your (Feudal) Dues -- Crossing the Line -- And There's More -- Jobs for the Boys -- A Tax on Stupidity -- Part II. Winners and Losers -- 4. Fair Enough -- Heads on Pikes -- Poll Taxes and the English -- Noble Causes -- Trying to Be Fair -- Pay for What You Get? -- Pay What You Can? -- Show Me a Sign -- Taxing by Class -- Taxing by Community -- Taxing the Finer Things in Life -- Presumptions of Prosperity -- 5. This Colossal Engine of Finance -- The Work of Giants: The Income Tax in Britain -- The Dred Scott Decision of the Revenue Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Plunder and Power -- 1. Any Public Matter -- Bengal to Boston -- Never Such Disgrace -- Why Bolivia Is Landlocked -- Taxing the Light of Heaven -- Not Everything Is About Tax. But . . . -- 2. The Way We Were -- A Quick Gallop through the Long History of Taxation -- How Much? -- Warfare and Welfare -- Babbage's Nightmare -- Debt, Default, and Princes -- Making Money -- 3. By Another Name -- Elizabeth I to Spectrum Auctions -- Selling Sovereignty -- Cheap Labor -- Working for Nothing -- A Rich Man's War and a Poor Man's Fight |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554235303321 |
Keen Michael
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| Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Whitewashed [[electronic resource] ] : America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority / / John Tehranian
| Whitewashed [[electronic resource] ] : America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority / / John Tehranian |
| Autore | Tehranian John |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.89/4073 |
| Collana | Critical America |
| Soggetto topico |
Race discrimination - United States
Racism - United States White people - Race identity - United States Turkish Americans - Legal status, laws, etc Iranian Americans - Legal status, laws, etc Arab Americans - Legal status, laws, etc Turkish Americans - Social conditions Iranian Americans - Social conditions Arab Americans - Social conditions |
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Catch-22
Iranian-American John Middle-Eastern Tehranian analysis analyze bizarre classification combines critical current events experiences experts legal personal racial theory this trends with |
| ISBN |
0-8147-8423-2
0-8147-8327-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Price of the Ticket; 1 Constructing Caucasians: A Brief History of Whiteness; 2 Performing Whiteness: Law, Dramaturgy, and the Paradox of Middle Eastern Racial Classification; 3 From Friendly Foreigner to Enemy Race: Selective Racialization, Covering, and the Negotiation of Middle Eastern American Identity; 4 The Last Minstrel Show? Middle Easterners in Media; 5 Threat Level Orange: The War on Terrorism and the Assault on Middle Eastern Civil Rights; 6 Lifting the Veil: Thinking about Reform; Conclusion; Notes; Index; About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996571866003316 |
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Tehranian John
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| New York, : New York University Press, c2009 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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