Creating The Modern American Fiscal State
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Author | : Ajay K. Mehrotra |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiscal policy |
ISBN | : 9781107425729 |
Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the US system of direct and progressive taxation.
Author | : Ajay K. Mehrotra |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2013-09-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107436001 |
At the turn of the twentieth century, the US system of public finance underwent a dramatic transformation. The late nineteenth-century regime of indirect, hidden, partisan, and regressive taxes was eclipsed in the early twentieth century by a direct, transparent, professionally administered, and progressive tax system. This book uncovers the contested roots and paradoxical consequences of this fundamental shift in American tax law and policy. It argues that the move toward a regime of direct and graduated taxation marked the emergence of a new fiscal polity - a new form of statecraft that was guided not simply by the functional need for greater revenue but by broader social concerns about economic justice, civic identity, bureaucratic capacity, and public power. Between the end of Reconstruction and the onset of the Great Depression, the intellectual, legal, and administrative foundations of the modern fiscal state first took shape. This book explains how and why this new fiscal polity came to be.
Author | : Ajay K. Mehrotra |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiscal policy |
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Author | : Dennis J. Ventry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 2015 |
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Mehrotra's award-winning book is a tour de force. It chronicles a transformative period in the development of the American fiscal state during which the old order -- characterized by indirect, hidden, mercilessly regressive, and partisan taxation -- gave way to a direct, transparent, steeply progressive, and professionally administered tax regime.
Author | : Wenkai He |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0674074637 |
Wenkai He shows why England and Japan, facing crises in public finance, developed the tools and institutions of a modern fiscal state, while China, facing similar circumstances, did not. He’s explanation for China’s failure at a critical moment illuminates one of the most important but least understood transformations of the modern world.
Author | : Isaac William Martin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2009-07-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0521494273 |
This volume presents sixteen essays by comparative historical scholars who offer a survey of the new fiscal sociology.
Author | : Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2012-05-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107013518 |
Leading economic historians present a groundbreaking series of country case studies exploring the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia.
Author | : Bill White |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1610393449 |
What would Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Truman, and Eisenhower have done about today's federal debt crisis? America's Fiscal Constitution tells the remarkable story of fiscal heroes who imposed clear limits on the use of federal debt, limits that for two centuries were part of an unwritten constitution. Those national leaders borrowed only for extraordinary purposes and relied on well-defined budget practices to balance federal spending and revenues. That traditional fiscal constitution collapsed in 2001. Afterward -- for the first time in history -- federal elected officials cut taxes during war, funded permanent new programs entirely with debt, grew dependent on foreign creditors, and claimed that the economy could not thrive without routine federal borrowing. For most of the nation's history, conservatives fought to restrain the growth of government by insisting that new programs be paid for with taxation, while progressives sought to preserve opportunities for people on the way up by balancing budgets. Virtually all mainstream politicians recognized that excessive debt could jeopardize private investment and national independence. With original scholarship and the benefit of experience in finance and public service, Bill White dispels common budget myths and distills practical lessons from the nation's five previous spikes in debt. America's Fiscal Constitution offers an objective and hopeful guide for people trying to make sense of the nation's current, most severe, debt crisis and its impact on their lives and our future.
Author | : W. Elliot Brownlee |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1996-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521552400 |
The current fiscal crisis faced by the American federal government represents the end of a fiscal regime that began with the financing of World War II. In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the history of American taxation and public finance since 1941 in an attempt to understand the political, social and economic forces that have shaped the current regime. Specifically, they examine the historical context of earlier tax regimes and national crises, explore the ways post-1941 governments used taxation to finance war, social security, and economic stability, and analyze the politics of post-1941 tax reform.
Author | : Ajay K. Mehrotra |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the U.S. system of public finance underwent a dramatic, structural transformation. The late nineteenth-century system of indirect taxes, associated mainly with the tariff, was eclipsed in the early decades of the twentieth century by a progressive income tax. This shift in U.S. tax policy marked the emergence of a new fiscal polity - one that was guided not simply by the functional and structural need for government revenue but by concerns for equity and economic and social justice. This Article explores the paradigm shift in legal and economic theories that undergirded this dramatic shift in U.S. tax policy. More specifically, this Article contends that a particular group of academic economists played a pivotal role in supplanting the benefits theory of taxation, and its concomitant vision of the state as a passive protector of private property, with a more equitable principle of taxation based on one's ability to pay - a principle that promoted a more active role for the state in the distribution of fiscal burdens. In facilitating this structural transformation, these theorists were able to use the growing concentration of wealth and the ascendancy of new economic ideas as justifications for using a progressive income tax to reallocate the burdens of financing the burgeoning American regulatory, administrative, and welfare state.