This book, first published in 1985, investigates the enactment of the federal income tax as a case study of an important Progressive Era reform. It was a critic
At the turn of the twentieth century, the U.S. system of public finance underwent a dramatic, structural transformation. The late nineteenth-century system of i
This paper examines the views of three prominent Wisconsin progressives - Richard T. Ely, Tomas Sewall Adams, and John R. Commons - on taxes as social policy. W
Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the US system of direct and progressive taxation.
