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June 23, 2009

The agency of things!

 
 
 
                                              The willard Hotel in D.C.
 
The ‘agency’ of things? 
 This is the Willard Hotel in Washington; if you look closely you can see it is on a famous street, and I walked past it when I was at a conference recently. Nothing remarkable, I know…but then I saw a placard on the wall (indeed there [...]

June 22, 2009

Taxing consumer acts: Connecting us to civic society?

 

Richard visiting his distant relative in Washington 09
 
Tax systems shape how we think about consumption
“Taxes class themselves readily according to the basis on which they rest. 1. Capital. 2. Income.        3. Consumption. ……………A government may select either of these bases for the establishment of its system of taxation, and so frame it as to [...]