Mercatus Center At George Mason University: 2 books
For Your Own Good
Taxes, Paternalism, and Fiscal Discrimination in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Taxing “sin” is one of the oldest and most persistent forms of selective taxation. Founding Father and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton is said to have imposed a tax on whiskey “before the ink on the US Constitution was dry.” Motivated as much by a need to increase revenues as by a desire...
Buchanan's Tensions
Reexamining the Political Economy and Philosophy of James M. Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
James M. Buchanan, Nobel Laureate in Economics and one of the premier political economists of the 20th century, was at the heart of the emergence of public choice theory and the reintroduction of politics to academic economic analysis. Like any great and productive scholar, his body of work includes...