UCLA kicks off a two-day conference today on Historical Perspectives on Tax Law & Policy. The conference brings together leading scholars in the fields of law, history, political science, economics, and other related fields to consider the history of tax law and public finance. Today’s papers and commentary are:
- Adam Chodorow (Arizona State (Law)): Biblical Tax Systems and the Argument for Progressive Taxation
- Commentary: Dennis Ventry (American (Law))
- Charlotte Crane (Northwestern (Law)): Some Possible Images of Federalism: The 1798 Stamp Tax
- Commentary: Sheldon Pollack (Delaware (Business Law & Political Science))
- Elliot Brownlee (UC-Santa Barbara (History)): The Shoup Mission to Japan: Two Political Economies Intersect
- Commentary: Kathryn James (Monash, Australia (Law))
- Ilan Ben-Shalom (Northwestern (Law)): The Quest to Tax Interest Income: Stages in the Development of International Taxation
- Commentary: Jeff Timmons (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Political Science))
- Onno Ydema (Leiden University, The Netherlands (Law)): Discussions on Graduated Taxation in the Batavian Republic
- Commentary: Ilan Ben-Shalom (Northwestern (Law))
- Henk Vording (Leiden University, The Netherlands (Law)): Radical tax reform in the Netherlands: A Failed Attempt (1936-1939)
- Commentary: Se Yan (UCLA (Economics))
- Stephanie Hunter McMahon (NYU (Golieb Fellow in Legal History)): To Save State Residents: States’ Use of the Federal System of Government for Tax Reduction
- Commentary: Ajay Mehrotra (Indiana (Law & History))
- Joseph J. Thorndike (Virginia (History)): "The Unfair Advantage of the Few”: Politics and Justice in the Revenue Act of 1935
- Commentary: Adam Chodorow (Arizona State (Law))
