For those groups which have been or are interested
in working on workfare/welfare reform issues, you may want
to know that --
Jobs With Justice is discussing a national day of action
on workfare/welfare reform in December (date not finalized).
The three themes of the proposed day of action
Andrew Carnegie in his Gospel of Wealth recommended inheritance taxes as
the best sort of taxation. Well, Schumpeter was never that good a
business anyway.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
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This is a request for help--does anyone know a good history of various govt
attempts to impose or relax inheritance/estate taxes? In his biography of
Schumpeter, Wolfgang Stolper notes Schumpeter's warning that inheritance
taxes may harm the basic motivatation to create a family position-- "that
perhaps some insight into the sawicky challenge can be gained from the
following.
according to an article in july/ag resurgence by jay walljasper, which
briefly reviews bill mckibben's "hope, human and wild", the indian state of
kerala, with per cap annual income of $300, 1/70 of U.S., under
Terry McDonough wrote:
While state policy (as a first approximation) is in service of
capital, there is no reason why this should be local capital
exclusively and no necessity the policies pursued should be
nationalist in character.
This issue revolves around how one conceptualizes the
I don't know the history of the economics of inheritance taxes, but
consider what the life-cycle hypothesis (LCH) says about it.
First, a proportional tax on inheritance (say 50%) is imposed (where none
existed) and people want to leave a fixed amount of "bequests" to their
scions, that would
At 11:33 AM 7/2/97 -0700, Bob Pollin wrote:
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In doing my book, I reviewed some of the literature estimating the share of
U.S. personal wealth that was the result of inheritance. As you might
imagine, good numbers are hard to come by. Modigliani, in trying to rescue
the LCH, tried to minimize inheritance's share by treating income earned on
perhaps some insight into the sawicky challenge can be gained from the
following.
according to an article in july/ag resurgence by jay walljasper, which
briefly reviews bill mckibben's "hope, human and wild", the indian state of
kerala, with per cap annual income of $300, 1/70 of U.S., under
At 01:13 PM 7/2/97 -0700, Stephen E Philion wrote:
Thanks for this post Wojtek. In your comments you seem to want to
disassociate yourself from "this society," but I would not recommend that.
I am part of this society, like many others who strongly oppose this form
of barbarism, and I think it
Jim D and Bill B have been discussing the relation of the state and
global capital with Bill emphasizing the continuity of the nation
state and Jim arguing the possibility of the emergence of global
state structures. One possible middle road here is the harnessing
of the structures of the
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