CES: Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800 — Between Distribution and Reallocation: The Politics of Taxation Revisited

Date: 

Friday, December 8, 2017, 2:15pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Goldman Room

SPEAKER

Lukas Haffert
Senior Researcher, University of Zurich; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2017-2018, CES, Harvard ; Visiting Scholar 2017-1918, CES, Harvard

 

DISCUSSANT

Daniel Mertens
Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Frankfurt

 

** Please note: Those planning to attend events in this series should read the paper that will be posted on the CES website before the seminar.**

About

We will discuss a paper that explains the tax policy decisions governments make, not in terms of their redistributive impact, but in terms of the ways in which taxes affect the allocation of resources across economic sectors and the role of cross-class coalitions in the development of tax policy in the western democracies.

 

CONTACT

Peter A. Hall
phall@fas.harvard.edu

 

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