Funding the Modern American State, 1941 1995

The Rise and Fall of the Era of Easy Finance
Herausgeber: Brownlee, W. Elliot; Hamilton, Lee H.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 924g
• ISBN-13: 9780521552400
• ISBN-10: 0521552400
• Artikelnr.: 21865775

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: Methodological and Historical: 1. Reflections on the
history of taxation; 2. Tax regimes, national crises, and state-building in
America; Taxation for War, Social Security, and Economic Stability: 3.
Mass-based income taxation: creating a taxpaying culture, 1940-1952; 4.
Social security and the financing of the American state; 5. The fiscal
revolution in America; Part II. 1964 to 1994: Tax Reform and the Political
Process: 6. Learning the ways and means: Wilbur Mills and a fiscal
community, 1954-1964; 7. American business and the taxing state: alliances
for growth in the postwar period; The Next Revenue Regime: 8. Financing the
American state at the turn of the century.