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Subject: The-Political-Economy-of-Taxation-The-Frederick-L-Maier-Archive: 20 records

As We Go Marching

John T. Flynn Updated 4/16/2012

John T. Flynn's classic work from 1944 on how wartime planning brought fascism to America. In some ways, this is the finest and most mature of all his works. It was written in wartime and his points were profoundly cutting. After all, the U.S....
Education: Free and Compulsory

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/10/2012

What is it about today's school system that so many find unsatisfactory? Why have so many generations of reformers failed to improve the educational system, and, indeed, caused it to degenerate further and further into an ever declining level...
The Conquest of Poverty

Henry Hazlitt Updated 12/19/2011

Long before Charles Murray took on the topic, Henry Hazlitt wrote an outstanding book on poverty that not only provided an empirical examination of the problem but also presented a rigorous theory for understanding the relationship between poverty an...
The Underground Economy

Hans F. Sennholz Updated 11/10/2011

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Economics for Real People

Gene Callahan Updated 9/16/2011

The second edition of the fun and fascinating guide to the main ideas of the Austrian School of economics, written in sparkling prose especially for the non-economist. Gene Callahan shows that good economics isn't about government planning or sta...
Income Tax: Root of All Evil

Frank Chodorov Updated 5/23/2011

Frank Chodorov was an extraordinary thinker and writer, and hugely influential in the 1950s. He wrote what became an American classic arguing that the income tax, more than any other legislative change in American history, made it possible to violate...
Tariff History of the United States

F.W. Taussig Updated 5/10/2011

The Mises Institute has completely retypeset F.W. Taussig’s definitive work on the tariff of the 19th century in the United States, a history that in some sense is the most important ever written because it was so decisive in leading to the sectional...
Country Squire in the White House

John T. Flynn Updated 4/27/2011

John T. Flynn was an early New Dealer who quickly saw what happens when power is concentrated in the executive state. He became a passionate opponent of FDR and his policies. This 1940 book is his analysis of the American presidency and the place...
Chaos Theory

Robert P. Murphy Updated 3/18/2011

Among the most advanced topics in the literature in the Austro-libertarian milieu is that which deals with the workings of the fully free society, that is, the society with no state, or anarcho-capitalism. Robert Murphy deals with this head on, and m...
"Death, Wealth, and Taxes"

Bruce Bartlett Updated 1/15/2007

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"Justice and Redistributive Taxation: James Buchanan versus Ludwig von Mises"

David Gordon Updated 1/15/2007

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"Austrian Methodology: The Preferred Tax Type"

Jeffrey M. Herbener Updated 1/15/2007

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"Consumption Tax: A Critique, The"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

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"Death Taxes: Theory, History, and Ethics"

Alexander Tabarrok Updated 1/15/2007

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"Great Depression Tax Revolts Revisited, The"

Mark Thornton Updated 1/15/2007

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"Uneasy Case for Degressive Taxation: A Critique of Blum and Kalven, The"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Political Economy of Economic Freedom by Alan Peacock"

Randall G. Holcombe Updated 1/15/2007

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"Austrian Journals: A Critique of Rosen, Yeager, Laband and Tollison, and Vedder and Gallaway"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

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"When in the Course of Human Events by Charles Adams"

Mark Thornton Updated 1/15/2007

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"On Property and Exploitation"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

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