This paper analyses the pre-tax inequality in the income that individuals actually receive in Brazil and the role of the personal income tax in regulating these incomes. We produce a new distributional series of fiscal income, consistently combining annual and nationally representative household...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary of Weights and Measures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Economic and Political Context for Danish Agricultural Development, ca. 1660- 1850 -- 3. The Agricultural Reforms, 1750s- 1800s -- 4. The Spread of the Holstein System -- 5. From Bullshit to...