Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Pleasingly Gaudy and Preposterous

Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod’s REBELLION, RASCALS AND REVENUE: TAX FOLLIES WISDOM THROUGH THE AGES (Princeton University Press, 2021) is a wonderful book, which should be read by any student of taxation. To most tax policy makers academics, history may seem bit arcane, because they believe that the study taxation especially public finance economics story progress we know better how to design good systems than our ancestors. this attitude, Slemrod offer decisive rejoinder: We do not necessarily understand predecessors, in fact can learn from their experience. marvelous book an attempt directly effectuate or rewrite history. Instead, it very wise excursion two highly experienced economists into past order both present comparing what was different, improve future learning wisdom follies.