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Beyond the Social Contract: An Anthropology of Tax

Contributor(s): Makovicky, Nicolette (Editor), Smith, Robin (Editor)

ISBN: 9781805390404

Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Pub Date: August 11, 2023

Dewey: 336.2

LCCN: 2023549107

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.44" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 0.86 lbs) 163 pages

Series: Studies in Social Analysis

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Description:

Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking.

Brief description:

Nicolette Makovicky is Director of Russian and East European Studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford. She is the editor of Neoliberalism, Personhood, and Postsocialism: Enterprising Selves in Changing Economies (Routledge, 2014), and co-editor of Slogans: Subjection, Subversion, and the Politics of Neoliberalism (Routledge, 2019).

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