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two tax systems came about. Taxation is only feasible when men and land can be linked as a single bundle. Taxation of land … is not feasible without men, and taxation of men is not feasible without land. A tax maximizing bureaucrat has to combine …. China's contiguous geography allows bureaucrats to establish an autocratic tax system whereas Europe's split geography …
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two tax systems came about. Taxation is only feasible when men and land can be linked as a single bundle. Taxation of land … is not feasible without men, and taxation of men is not feasible without land. A tax maximizing bureaucrat has to combine …. China’s contiguous geography allows bureaucrats to establish an autocratic tax system whereas Europe’s split geography …
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proportional taxation increases the cost of self-control, and that this adverse effect is more acute when public pensions become …
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In this paper we explore current understandings of the influence of political rights, among historical legacies, on economic development. We construct variables for selected political regimes for 1811-2010. We find significant association between individual rights and economic growth. We argue...
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Ratings of institutional quality are widely known and used in academic literature. Among such ratings are some whose compilation procedure took decades to perfect. Dozens of assessments have been accumulated, pertaining to a large and growing list of countries. These ratings use expert...
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In this paper we explore current understandings of the influence of political rights, among historical legacies, on economic development. We construct variables for selected political regimes for 1811-2010. We find significant association between individual rights and economic growth. We argue...
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The ratings of economic and political institutions are well-known and widely used in the Social Science literature. These ratings are heavily relied on Experts' evaluations with subjective ordinal ranking (i.g., from -10 to 10 points). Such evaluations can be occasionally driven by ideological...
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private property, low taxation benefits etc. Personal immunity should be defended even for "unpleasant" person (say, H. Ford …
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We challenge the "OECD view" (Arnold et al. 2011) according to which a shift from direct to indirect taxation is … composition (in particular direct vs. indirect taxation). We can replicate the findings in Arnold et al. when focusing on the same …
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