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

Name: Making the Modern American Fiscal State Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877-1929
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ISBN: 9781107043923

ISBN-10: 1107043921

ISBN-13: 9781107043923

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ajay K. Mehrotra

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Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the U.S. system of direct and progressive taxation. Ajay K. Mehrotra provides historical perspective on the intellectual, legal, and administrative foundations of the current U.S. tax regime. In doing so, he uncovers the contested roots and paradoxical consequences of a fundamental transformation in American tax law and policy that took place at the turn of the twentieth century. 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 guided not only by the functional need for greater revenue, but also by broader social concerns about equity,…

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List price: $101.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.25" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Ajay K. Mehrotra is a professor of law and history at Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, IN, USA.



List of tables, charts, and illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Old Fiscal Order



The growing social antagonism: partisan taxation and the early resistance to fiscal reform



The gradual demise: modern forces, new concepts, and economic crisis



The Rise of the Modern Fiscal State



The response to Pollock: navigating an intellectual middle ground



The factories of fiscal innovation: institutional reform at the state and local level



Corporate capitalism and constitutional change: the legal foundations of the modern fiscal state



Consolidating the New Fiscal Order



Lawyers, guns, and public monies: the US treasury, World War I, and the administration of the modern fiscal state



The paradox of retrenchment: postwar Republican ascendancy and the resiliency of the modern fiscal state


Conclusion


Index