Contents: Introduction: Wealth and taxes -- Part I. The wealthy and state revenue generation -- 1. Defining wealth and taxes on the wealthy -- 2. Raising government revenue -- 3. State revenue from antiquity to the modern income tax -- Part II. Rethinking taxation of the wealthy -- 4. Public...

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