Kenneth Scheve, David Stasavage

Broschiertes Buch

Taxing the Rich

A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe

Beschreibung

In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens--and their answers may surprise you. Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled evidence from twenty c

Autor

Kenneth Scheve is professor of political science and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is the coauthor of Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers . David Stasavage is Julius Silver Professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University. He is the author of States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities (Princeton).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 141mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780691178295
• ISBN-10: 0691178291
• Artikelnr.: 48095845

Rezensionen

"In its big picture argument the book is convincing: on both the correlation and nature of caUSlity between wars that required the mass of working people to sacrifice not just their labour but also their lives; and on the imposition of higher tax rates on the rich in the 20th century."--Torsten Bell, Prospect