Making the Modern American Fiscal State - Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877-1929 (Paperback)

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. In Making the American Fiscal State, Ajay K. Mehrotra uncovers the contested roots and paradoxical consequences of this fundamental shift in American tax law and policy. He 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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
Release date:	September 2014
Authors:	Ajay K Mehrotra
Dimensions:	230 x 153 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	446
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-61973-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > Public finance > Taxation Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > Money & Finance > Public finance > Taxation
LSN:	1-107-61973-4
Barcode:	9781107619739

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