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  • Taxing Ourselves, fifth edition

    A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes

    by Joel Slemrod, Jon Bakija ...
    The new edition of a popular guide to the key issues in tax reform, presented in a clear, nontechnical, and unbiased way.To follow the debate over tax reform, the interested citizen is often forced to choose between misleading sound bites and academic treatises. Taxing Ourselves bridges the gap between the oversimplified and the arcane, presenting the key issues clearly and without a political ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue

    Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages

    by Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod ...
    An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the agesGovernments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts—and, in repressing it, ended ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Taxes in America

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Leonard E. Burman, Joel Slemrod ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    Arguments about taxation are among the most heated- no other topic is as influential to the role of government and the distribution of costs and benefits in America. But while understanding of our tax system is of vital importance, the complexity can create confusion. Two of America's leading authorities on taxes, Leonard E. Burman and Joel Slemrod, bring clarity in this concise explanation of how ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Taxes in America

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Leonard E. Burman, Joel Slemrod ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Despite their passion and fury, contemporary Americans are remarkably clueless about how their tax system works. But with heated debates over taxation now roiling Congress and the nation, an understanding of our tax system is of vital importance. Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know®, by preeminent tax scholars Leonard E. Burman and Joel Slemrod, offers a clear, concise explanation of how ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Taxes in America

    What Everyone Needs to Know, 2nd Edition

    by Leonard E. Burman, Joel Slemrod ...
    Narrated by Jim Seybert ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 9 min

    Arguments about taxation are among the most heated—no other topic is as influential to the role of government and the distribution of costs and benefits in America. But while understanding of our tax system is of vital importance, the complexity can create confusion. Two of America's leading authorities on taxes, Leonard E. Burman and Joel Slemrod, bring clarity in this concise explanation of how ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taxes in America

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Leonard E. Burman, Joel Slemrod ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Despite their passion and fury, contemporary Americans are remarkably clueless about how their tax system works. But with heated debates over taxation now roiling Congress and the nation, an understanding of our tax system is of vital importance. Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know®, by preeminent tax scholars Leonard E. Burman and Joel Slemrod, offers a clear, concise explanation of how ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue

    Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages

    by Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 28 min

    Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts—and, in repressing it, ended up burning the very huts they intended to tax. Sometimes they succeed astonishingly, as when, in eighteenth-century Britain, a cut in the tax on tea massively ... Read more

    Was $30.99 USD Now $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz explains the current financial crisis—and the coming global economic order.The current global financial crisis carries a “made-in-America” label. In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behavior to the rest of the world, only to cobble together a haphazard and ... Read more

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  • Between Debt and the Devil

    Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance

    by Adair Turner, Adair Turner ...
    Why our addiction to debt caused the global financial crisis and is the root of our financial woesAdair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis. It didn’t ... Read more

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  • In the Wake of the Crisis

    Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy

    Edited by Olivier Blanchard, David Romer, Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world.In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policymakers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment.The crisis and the weak recovery that has ... Read more

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  • Why Minsky Matters

    An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist

    by Larry Randall Wray ...
    Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919–96). Although a handful of economists raised alarms as early as 2000, Minsky's warnings began a half-century earlier, with writings that set out a compelling theory of financial instability. Yet even today he remains largely outside mainstream economics; few people have a good grasp of his writings, ... Read more

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  • Macroeconomics in Emerging Markets

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    The macroeconomic experience of emerging and developing economies has tended to be quite different from that of industrial countries. Compared to industrial countries, emerging and developing economies have tended to be much more unstable, with more severe boom/bust cycles, episodes of high inflation and a variety of financial crises. This textbook describes how the standard macroeconomic models ... Read more

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