...Guido Erreygers; Giovanni Di Bartolomeo The Debates on Eugenio Rignano’s Inheritance Tax Proposals Guido Erreygers and Giovanni Di Bartolomeo In June 1920, Filippo Turati (1857–1932), one of the founders of the Italian Labour Party, gave a three-hour speech to the Italian Parliament...

... on the Income Tax Exemption and Inheritance Taxes: The Evidence Reconsidered Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Douglas M. Walker A succession duty is the most unobjectionable mode of [statically and intertemporally redistributing wealth] . . . because in that way it is confined...

... the social good and rejecting the individualism of (classical) liberalism; that the progressives venerated social efficiency; that the progressives believed in the epistemic and moral authority of science, a belief that comprised their view that biology could explain and control human inheritance...

... primitive probabilities based on experience of statistical evidence, and primitive a priori probabilities based on a more general and less precise kind of experience, inherited by the human race through evolution. Given primitive probabilities, no other devices than the rules of calculus of probabilities...

... hand, Commons followed Hohfeld and recognized that such concepts as property and inheritance actually represent an aggregation of numerous types of legal relations. Hohfeld's schema provided a powerful rhetorical and analytical tool whereby these highly abstract conceptions could be reduced...

... of Mendelian Inheritance . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 52 : 399 – 433 . ———. 1920–21 . On the Degree of Perfection of Hierarchical Order among Correlation Coefficients (G. H. Thomson) . Eugenics Review 12 : 63 . ———. 1922a . On the Mathematical Foundations of Theoretical...

... on inheritance, 38–39 Bank of Japan, 196 Brambilla, Francesco, 221 Barger, Harold, 149 Bronfenbrenner, Martin, 196–97, 240 Index  335 Brown, A. J., 170 Citation analysis, impact...

... governments regulated working conditions, banned child labor, capped working hours, and set minimum wages. By the 1910s more than forty states had instituted inheritance taxes. Local governments municipal- ized gas and water companies. Professional economists, especially the progressives among them...

... to contemporary currents of interpretation. The dance of ideas and interests in David Ames Wells’s struggles with tariffs is traced with analytical precision. Eugenio Rignano’s ultimately failed campaign to mix effi ciency with social justice in the reform of inheritance laws points straight to the present...

... asserted that the individual's “physical, mental, and moral” constitution derived from inheritance and experience , through which “the characteristics of every individual are completely determined.” Inheritance he defined as “the sum of the characteristics inherited by him [the individual] from his...

.... Above the poverty line, income tax is proportional, and Mill repudiated the welfarist argument that taxation should be employed “as a means of mitigating the inequalities of wealth” (810). His proposals on inheritance have insignificant redistributive effects for the lower income groups...

... it was inherited or what caused its changes—he died without having read Gregor Mendel’s genetics paper. Darwinians know that phenotypes (organisms and their behaviors) are influenced by their genes (collectively,the genotype),and that it is the genotype that changes—via mutation and recombination from sexual...

... Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The United States: Introduction The three sections of this book follow a natural progression. Just as the Church of England inherited the traditions of the Catholic Church, so, too, did American Christianity inherit much of its initial...

... Ekelund / The Economist Dupuit 9 a principle, according to Dupuit, empirically derived from the effects and limits of inheritance. The English legislator was a bad agricultur- ist because, in England, land was transmitted in huge concentrated parcels...

... a role to inherited characteristics and introduced the idea of programed switches, whereby new learning capacity becomes available to the child at different moments of his life. However both Freud and the Freudians have not pro- ceeded far enough: according to them, psychological...

... of eugenic arguments. In his 1914 survey, Mitchell had assumed a somewhat intermediate position: Since we have come to discredit the inheritance of acquired characteristics, he wrote (1914: 6), the possibility of reforming human nature turns largely on Fiorito and Vatiero / Wesley Clair Mitchell...

... never knew what changed or how it was inherited or what caused its changes—he died without having read Gregor Mendel’s genetics paper. Darwinians know that phenotypes (organisms and their behaviors) are influenced by their genes (collectively,the genotype),and that it is the genotype that changes—via...

... efficiency; the progressives believed in the epistemic and moral authority of science, a belief that com- prised their view that biology could explain and control human inheritance and that the still nascent sciences of society could explain and control the causes of economic ills; the progres- sives...

... stages of English history. The manorial court rolls should have furnished the copyholder a register of title, which many freeholders lacked. Simpson, p. 258. For further detail on the inconvenience and uncertainty of copyhold tenure, see E. P. Thompson, The Grid of Inheritance: Rural Sociefy...

..., separated art from science, even in the Logic (p. 131-32). In theory, in Hollander’s view, Ricardo explained the inverse relation, using the invariable measure of value, mainly from the profit-rate equalization process in the price mechanism, and this was what Mill inherited from Ricardo...