Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the US system of direct and progressive taxation.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the US system of public finance underwent a dramatic transformation. The late nineteenth-century regime of indirect, hidde

Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the US system of direct and progressive taxation.

Wenkai He shows why England and Japan, facing crises in public finance, developed the tools and institutions of a modern fiscal state, while China, facing simil

This volume presents sixteen essays by comparative historical scholars who offer a survey of the new fiscal sociology.