Based on a conference on "The transfer of ideas about taxation" held Sept. 16-18, 2005 in Cambridge, England. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
pt. I. Challenges of war and occupation. Regional exchanges and patterns of taxation in eighteenth-century Europe: the case of the Italian Cadastres / Christine Lebeau ; Learning from French experience? The Prussian Regie tax administration, 1766-86 / Florian Schui ; The Napoleonic Empire in Italy: the transfer of tax ideas and political legitimacy 1802-14 / Alexander Grab -- pt. II. Federal polities. The transfer of ideas about taxation in a federal state: the example of the German Empire, 1875-1914 / Andreas Thier ; The paradoxes of state-building: transnational expertise and the income tax debates in the United States and Germany, c. 1880-1914 / Holger Nehring ; Harmonization through competition? The evolution of taxation in post-war Europe / Frances M. B. Lynch -- pt. III. Empires and international organizations. Tax transfers: Britain and its Empire, 1848-1914 / Martin Daunton ; The transfer of tax ideas during the 'Reverse Course' of the US occupation of Japan / W. Elliot Brownlee ; Tax policy transfer to developing countries: politics, institutions and experts / Miranda Stewart ; The flat tax: fiscal revolution or policy diffusion? / Joseph J. Thorndike.
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