From Seligman to Shoup: The Early Columbia School of Taxation and Development

From Seligman to Shoup: The Early Columbia School of Taxation and Development

Description

Professor Mehrotra's contribution, chapter 2, is entitled, "From Seligman to Shoup: The Early Columbia School of Taxation and Development."

ISBN

9781107033160 (hb.), 9781107352988 (e-book)

Publication Date

2013

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

City

New York

Keywords

Taxation-Japan-History-20th century, Fiscal policy-Japan-History-20th century, Japan-Economic conditions-1945-1989, Japan-Foreign economic relations-United States, United States-Foreign economic relations-Japan, Carl S. Shoup

Disciplines

Law | Legal Biography | Taxation-Transnational

Comments

Brownlee, W. Elliot., ed. The Political Economy of Transnational Tax Reform: The Shoup Mission to Japan in Historical Context. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

This volume of essays explores the history of the U.S. tax mission to Japan during the occupation following World War II. Under General MacArthur, economist Carl S. Shoup led the mission with the charge of framing a tax system for Japan designed to strengthen democracy and accelerate economic recovery. The volume examines the sources, conduct, and effects of the mission and situates the mission within the history of international financial and fiscal reform. The book begins by establishing the context of progressive social investigations of taxation, including Shoup's earlier tax missions to France and Cuba. It then goes on to explore the Japanese background to the Shoup mission and the process by which American and Japanese tax experts shaped their recommendations. The book then assesses and explains the mission's accomplishments in the context of the political economies of the United States and Japan. It concludes by analyzing the global implications of the mission, which became iconic among international tax reformers.

Full bibliographic details available here.

Copies available in the Jerome Hall Law Library, HJ 2971 .P65 2013

From Seligman to Shoup: The Early Columbia School of Taxation and Development

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