Recent decades have seen almost unprecedented economic growth in income per capita around the world. Yet this extraordinary overall performance masks a wide variation in growth rates across different countries, with persistent underdevelopment in some parts of the world. This disparity...

Introduction: The intimate fiscal state -- Before the income tax: Jewish, Ottoman, and early mandatory taxation -- The introduction of income taxation in mandatory Palestine -- Taxation without law : The Jewish voluntary tax system -- Law and social norms in early Israeli taxation -- The rise of...