Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages.

I appreciated Keen and Slemrods attempts to find tax examples from outside of Europe and North America. Michael Keen and Joel Slemrods new book, I Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages i , attempts to convince readers that taxes are interesting. Still, the authors might have found it easier to say more about the history of taxation of other parts of the world if they had chosen to organize the book by historical episodes rather than by principles of taxation. [Extracted from the article]