The Rosetta Stone to the US Code: A New History of Taxation, with Charles Adams, July 26-30, 2004, Mises Institute
Join tax historian Charles Adams for a week-long seminar in a new history of taxation from the ancient world to the present. His three books on the topic have highlighted the role that the state’s relentless drive for more revenue has inspired wars, revolutions, and every manner of political upheaval. And yet historians who are not usually alert to the economic dynamic behind social change have missed the role that taxation has played.



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