Funding the Modern American State, 1941-1995 - The Rise and Fall of the Era of Easy Finance

Zusammenfassung The fiscal crisis facing the American federal government represents the end of a fiscal regime that began with the financing of World War II. In this book! an inter-disciplinary group of scholars explores the history of US taxation and public finance since 1941! attempting to understand the political! social and economic forces that have shaped the current regime. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: W. Elliot Brownlee, W.elliot Brownlee
• Assisted by: W. Elliot Brownlee (Editor), Lee H. Hamilton (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2003
• EAN: 9780521531146
• ISBN: 978-0-521-53114-6
• No. of pages: 480
• Series: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous