By Way of Deduction: Schütz’s Essay on Taxation
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Alfred Schütz’s 1927 essay on capital income taxation is examined in the contexts of the evolution of the German progressive income tax, the fiscal and monetary crises of the time, and Schütz’s relationship to the Austrian school of economics. JEL classification: B3.
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