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  • Notes from the Trauma Party

    by Michael Keen ...
    In a post-Knausgaard fictional reality that is as devastating as it is hilarious, an idealistic social worker with the same name as the author counsels the mentally ill, tries to be scrupulously honest (too honest?) with his girlfriends, and earnestly lectures his fellow writers in the MFA hothouse-all while navigating the complicated administrative aspects of being, and remaining, extraordinarily ... Read more

    $9.99 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

    $14.99 USD

  • Taxing Profit in a Global Economy

    by Michael P. Devereux, Alan J. Auerbach, Michael Keen, Paul Oosterhuis, John Vella, Wolfgang Schön ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book undertakes a fundamental review of the existing international system of taxing business profit. It steps back from the current political debates on how to combat profit shifting and how taxing rights over the profits of the ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Taxation of Petroleum and Minerals

    Principles, Problems and Practice

    Edited by Philip Daniel, Michael Keen, Charles McPherson ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
    There are few areas of economic policy-making in which the returns to good decisions are so high—and the punishment of bad decisions so cruel—as in the management of natural resource wealth. Rich endowments of oil, gas and minerals have set some countries on courses of sustained and robust prosperity; but they have left others riddled with corruption and persistent poverty, with little of lasting ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • International Taxation and the Extractive Industries

    Edited by Philip Daniel, Michael Keen, Artur Świstak, Victor Thuronyi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The taxation of extractive industries exploiting oil, gas, or minerals is usually treated as a sovereign, national policy and administration issue.This book offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of the theory and practice involved in designing policies on the international aspects of fiscal regimes for these industries, with a particular focus on developing and emerging economies.International ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Azawad’s Facebook Warriors

    The MNLA, Social Media, and the Malian Civil War

    by Michael Keen ...
    Series Book 2 - Currents in Media, Social and Religious Movements in the Middle East
    In January 2012, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), a group dominated by members of the Tuareg ethnic group, launched a military uprising seeking the independence of Mali’s vast but sparsely populated north as the democratic, secular nation-state of Azawad. Azawad’s Facebook Warriors tells the extraordinary story of a small group of social media activists who sought to ... Read more

    $93.69 USD

  • Fiscal Policy to Mitigate Climate Change: A Guide for Policymakers

    by Ian W.H. Parry, Ruud A. de Mooij, Michael Keen ...
    Efforts to control atmospheric accumulations of greenhouse gases that threaten to heat up the planet are in their infancy. Although the IMF is not an environmental organization, environmental issues matter for the organization's mission when they have major implications for macroeconomic performance and fiscal policy. Climate change clearly passes both these tests. This volume provides practical ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    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

    $30.99 USD

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    An Arab Anomaly

    by Safwan M. Masri ...
    The Arab Spring began and ended with Tunisia. In a region beset by brutal repression, humanitarian disasters, and civil war, Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution alone gave way to a peaceful transition to a functioning democracy. Within four short years, Tunisians passed a progressive constitution, held fair parliamentary elections, and ushered in the country's first-ever democratically elected president. ... Read more

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  • The Climate Casino

    Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

    by William D. Nordhaus ...
    Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how. Bringing together all the important issues ... Read more

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  • Prozac Nation

    Young and Depressed in America

    by Elizabeth Wurtzel ...
    **Elizabeth Wurtzel's New York Times best-selling memoir, with a new afterword"Sparkling, luminescent prose . . . A powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression and back." —New York Times"A book that became a cultural touchstone." —New Yorker**Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger on the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain ... Read more

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  • A History of Modern Morocco

    by Susan Gilson Miller ...
    Morocco is notable for its stable and durable monarchy, its close ties with the West, its vibrant cultural life and its centrality to regional politics. This book, by distinguished historian Susan Gilson Miller, offers a richly documented survey of modern Moroccan history. Arguing that pragmatism rather than ideology has shaped the monarchy's response to crisis, the book begins with the French ... Read more

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