"In daily life and in tax law, time is taken for granted as something that is ever present but beyond our control. Time moves endlessly and relentlessly forward, constantly slipping from our grasp. But what if life were more like science fiction? What if we could, at will, move through time to...

The thunder of history: the origins and development of the new fiscal sociology / Isaac William Martin, Ajay K. Mehrotra, Monica Prasad -- "The unfair advantage of the few": the New Deal origins of "soak the rich" taxation / Joseph J. Thorndike -- What Americans think of taxes / Andrea Louise...

"A gripping account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British...