M. Susan Murnane (Ph.D. Candidate (American History), Case Western Reserve University) has published Selling Scientific Taxation: The Treasury Department’s Campaign for Tax Reform in the 1920s, 29 Law & Soc. Inquiry 819 (2004). Here is the opening:
The received interpretation of the Mellon tax reforms in the 1920s describes a reactionary roll-back of the first, progressive, permanent income tax system in United States history. This essay revises that interpretation in important ways.
