PublishedPrinceton University Press, April 2021 |
ISBN9780691199542 |
FormatHardcover, 536 pages |
Dimensions23.5cm × 15.6cm |
An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages
Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone
