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James M. Buchanan

Издател: Liberty Fund

While this volume presents the important writings of James M. Buchanan on taxation and debt, Geoffrey Brennan makes it clear in the foreword that the thrust of Buchanan’s work in this area has been to integrate theories of taxation and debt with public-expenditure theory. Therefore, the editors strongly urge that the present volume on taxation

Irving Babbitt

Издател: Liberty Fund

Irving Babbitt was a leader of the intellectual movement called American Humanism, or the New Humanism, and a distinguished professor of French literature at Harvard. Democracy and Leadership, first published in 1924, is his only directly political book, and in it he applies the principles of humanism to the civil social order. Babbitt rejects

Alexis de Tocqueville

Издател: Liberty Fund

In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and his friend Gustave de Beaumont visited the United States on behalf of the French government to study American prisons. In their nine months in the U.S. they studied not just the prison system but every aspect of American life, public and private—the political, economic, religious, cultural, and above all social

Merrill D. Peterson

Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.

In one volume, Democracy, Liberty, and Property provides an overview of the state constitutional conventions held in the 1820s. With topics as relevant today as they were then, this collection of essential primary sources sheds light on many of the enduring issues of liberty. Emphasizing the connection between federalism and liberty, the debates

Charles R. Hulten (ed.)

Издател: The Uban Institute Press

Few areas of the U.S. Tax Code have been changed or revised more frequently than those sections relating to depreciable assets…Unfortunately, none of these changes anticipated the high rates of inflation of the 1970s, and the tax treatment of depreciable assets has once again surfaced as a major issue in the debate of tax reform. The basic