Funding the Modern American State, 1941–1995
The Rise and Fall of the Era of Easy Finance
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- Editor: W. Elliot Brownlee, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Date Published: January 1996
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521552400
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The current fiscal crisis faced by the American federal government represents the end of a fiscal regime that began with the financing of World War II. In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the history of American taxation and public finance since 1941 in an attempt to understand the political, social and economic forces that have shaped the current regime. Specifically, they examine the historical context of earlier tax regimes and national crises, explore the ways post-1941 governments used taxation to finance war, social security, and economic stability, and analyze the politics of post-1941 tax reform.
Read more- Includes an analysis of the next tax regime - the one most likely to follow the demise of the 'era of easy finance'
- Provides a synoptic overview of the development of the US tax system from the Civil War through the budget impasse
- Treats the intellectual problems associated with the history of American public finance
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"These scholarly essays are well documented and objective....this volume will serve as a valuable source of information about events of great importance." Political Science Quarterly
See more reviews"The eight essays in Funding the Modern American State, 1945-1995, offer an excellent guide to US tax policy in the twentieth century." Robert Cuff, Business Library Review
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- Date Published: January 1996
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521552400
- length: 480 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 160 x 36 mm
- weight: 0.783kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction: Methodological and Historical:
1. Reflections on the history of taxation
2. Tax regimes, national crises, and state-building in America
Taxation for War, Social Security, and Economic Stability:
3. Mass-based income taxation: creating a taxpaying culture, 1940-1952
4. Social security and the financing of the American state
5. The fiscal revolution in America
Part II. 1964 to 1994: Tax Reform and the Political Process:
6. Learning the ways and means: Wilbur Mills and a fiscal community, 1954-1964
7. American business and the taxing state: alliances for growth in the postwar period
The Next Revenue Regime:
8. Financing the American state at the turn of the century.
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