Introduction : tax justice--the uneasy debate / Joseph J. Thorndike and Dennis J. Ventry Jr. -- Equity and the case for progressive taxation / Richard A. Musgrave -- Equity versus efficiency and the U.S. tax system in historical perspective / Dennis J. Ventry Jr. -- Economic history and the...

A history of how President Roosevelt and his cabinet developed the ideas that became the New Deal and how negotiations between the President and the Congress brought to the ideas into legislation. - Provided by publisher

Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled evidence from twenty countries over the last two centuries to provide the broadest and most in-depth history of progressive taxation available. Scheve and Stasavage explore the intellectual and political debates surrounding the taxation of the wealthy while...