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Worlds of Taxation : The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution Since 1945 / edited by Gisela Huerlimann, W. Elliot Brownlee, Eisaku Ide
(Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. ISSN:26625172)

Publisher	(Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan)
Year	2018
Edition	1st ed. 2018.
Authors	Huerlimann, Gisela editor Brownlee, W. Elliot editor Ide, Eisaku editor SpringerLink (Online service)

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00174537		Springer Economics and Finance eBooks (電子ブック)	9783319902630

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	XVIII, 357 p. 20 illus : online resource
Notes	The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution Since 1945: An Introduction -- How Employers and Conservatives Shaped the Modern Tax State -- How They All Came to Love the VAT: Consumption Taxes, Big Business, and the Welfare State in Sweden -- Working-Class Power and the Taxation of Current Earnings: Danish Pay-As-You-Earn in Comparative Perspective -- Universalism and Tax Consent in Denmark -- The Powerlessness of Employees in France: The Spread of Income Taxation, 1945–1980 -- Tax Policy in the United States: Was There a “Neo-liberal” Revolution in the 1970s and 1980s? -- Tax Reformers’ Ideas, the Expenditure-Taxation Nexus, and Comprehensive Tax Reform in the United States, 1961–1986 -- The Rise and Fall of the Industrious State: Why Did Japan’s Welfare State Differ from European-Style Models? -- A Reverse-Functioning System: Japan’s Social Security System and Tax Progression in the Early Twenty-First Century -- A Fair Case for Tax Relief: Swiss Tax Policy, 1940s to 1960s -- Unfairness, Inequality, and Tax Evasion: An Analysis of the Distribution of the Tax Burden in Greece, 1955–1989 -- Limits to Redistribution in Late Democratic Transitions: The Case of Spain This book provides a historical understanding of current debates over tax reform and offers a comparative framework for discussing the relationship between fiscal policy and the distribution of income and wealth. Topics covered include the evolution of income taxation since World War II; the turn toward value added taxation; the relationship between tax reform and the construction of welfare states; the impact of globalization on tax and fiscal policy; the social forces shaping tax consent; and the political economy of tax and fiscal reform. These topics are covered in case studies that focus on significant episodes in the fiscal history of Denmark, Sweden, France, Greece, the United Kingdom, Spain, Switzerland, the United States, and Japan. HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90263-0
Subjects	LCSH:Finance LCSH:History LCSH:Finance, Public LCSH:International economic relations FREE:Financial History FREE:Public Finance FREE:International Political Economy’
Classification	LCC:HG171 DC23:332.09
ID	8000022993
ISBN	9783319902630