Taxes have existed in Denmark since at least as far back as the earliest surviving written sources. This paper concerns the role taxation has had on shaping Danish society alongside the development of Danish democracy

This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the twentieth century. We use three new datasets: a panel of the universe of inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a...

Der westdeutsche Wiederaufbau nach 1945 erforderte umfangreiche gesamtwirtschaftliche Investitionen. Anfang der Fünfzigerjahre war die große Diskrepanz zwischen Kapitalnachfrage und -angebot das wirtschaftliche Kernproblem der jungen Bundesrepublik, bei dem sich der "funktionsunfähige"...