...Lilia Costabile; François R. Velde Abstract Writing in the first decade of the seventeenth century, Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639) studied tax erosion and proposed remedies that he promised would “transform a harm into a benefit.” The factual evolution of tax revenues and prices under the monetary...

... the inflation tax (1924b).28 The term inflation tax already appears in the first essay, but the author used it there in a rather loose way, to denote either or both the erosion, despite indexation, in the real wage and the fiscal drag effect on effective pay-as-you...

...,” and it was philosophically Jeffersonian in its defense of “human liberty” (97). Years later, in a speech delivered in Japan, Buchanan would blame the government for “the erosion of the traditional moral order in America” (64). However, the most interesting text in the volume under review is a speech given a few months later...

... a decline in unit labor costs, thus enhancing interna- tional competitiveness while reducing the real incomes of wage earners, in turn causing a reduction in consumption demand, including, in par- ticular, demand for imported consumption goods. The method of wage erosion may be described as a pincer...

... an extensive study of trends in top-level wealth based on estate tax returns. The overall income share of top wealth-holders had declined since its peak in 1929, he reported, basically con£rming Kuznets s earlier analysis, though it had grown since the early 1950s, and was by then not far below its earlier...

...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...

... in the essay on imperial- ism.’ In the concluding paragraph of “The Crisis of the Tax State” he explained: Nevertheless the hour [for socialism] will come. By and by private enterprise will lose its social meaning through the development of the economy and the consequent expansion...

... . “ Koopmans on the Choice of Variables to Be Studied and the Methods of Measurement (with Reply) .” Review of Economics and Statistics 31 ( May ): 77 – 91 . Theory and Measurement: Emergence, Consolidation, and Erosion of a Consensus Jeff E. Biddle and Daniel S. Hamermesh A number...

... reaches it or not Of their post-tax income, some Indians em- ployed one-third in profitable trade, held one-third in “reserve to guanantee the heart against mxiety,” devoted one-nhkh to alms, 25.Ibid., 1:178, also 398 for names of some authors who prepared shastras but are not 60...

... before he assumed the throne, significantly 1. The history in this paragraph is outlined in Caffentzis 1989. Wennerlind / The Death Penalty as Monetary Policy 133 curtailed the monarch’s right to tax and spend at will (North and Wein- gast 1989). Contrary to his two predecessors...

... and columnists who claimed that Chile's economic performance was a broken promise. As these debates reveal, new economic policies such as the entrepreneurial state, universal basic income, a tax on patrimony, and codetermination—policies that constitute the antithesis of the Chilean model, with its market...

... consequences for the native populations. For example, Marx points out the destructive influence on the Chinese state of the inte- gration into world capitalist trade, especially because of the erosion of domestic production caused by cheap imports .62 An identical process was occuring in India...

..., if it is conceived as capital erosion, it will be deducted from the profits of the investor or owner. Saliers s 1922 essay contains several statements about the definition of depreciation as a cost.34 In contrast, Riggs (1922: 17) argues that depreciation in the sense of loss of value will not happen if proper...

... .” Review of Reviews 49 ( February ): 199 – 210 . “ Free Sugar and an Income Tax .” 1912 . Independent 72 , March 7 , 532 . Frey Bruno Pommerehne Werner . 1993 “ On the Fairness of Pricing: An Empirical Survey among the General Population .” Journal of Economic Behavior...

... works program financed by open-market sales of government bonds and went out of their way to attack the concept of an annually balanced budget as an old-fashioned dogma (Stoneman 1979). Indeed the erosion of the shibboleth of bal- anced budgets and the adoption of the doctrine of “spending...

... as a revelation. As Bob’s recollections imply, however, the largesse was never merely material; there was genuine hospitality and gen- erosity of spirit as well, to which he, though a shy man, responded. With Viner’s help he was given a passport to travel through some of the main centers of American...

.... .Seidler, a contemporary critic of natural accounting, pointed out (1920, 268) that it must also be seen as a reaction to the erosion of the value of money which had occurred during the war and which was later to develop into the hyperinflation of 1922. This squares with the charge...

... businessman, journalist 1 1 I882 SEP COURNOT, A.A. 1801 1877 1 professor, rector DAIRE, L.F. 1798 I847 tax-collector, author 1 SEP DESTUT DE TRACY, A.L. 1754 1836...

..., thoroughly examined the principle of deposit insurance and advised, “Under the guaranty fund, all banks, good and bad, are taxed on the same basis. . . . Insurance principles dictate that the element of risk must be guarded against, and this is done by differential rates, depending upon...

... the distribution of income and wealth be reshaped to become more equitable and humane? Should large concentrations of power in capital and labor be broken up or constrained in some way? How might the dramatic soil erosion in the south and southwest, symbolized by the Dust Bowl, be reduced? Could human...