Private wealth and public revenue in Latin America : business power and tax politics /
Inequality and taxation are fundamental problems of modern times. How and when can democracies tax economic elites? This book develops a theoretical framework that refines and integrates the classic concepts of business's instrumental (political) power and structural (investment) power to expla...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016, c2015.
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| Edición: | 1st paperback ed. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Tax policy and economic elites : going where the money is
- 2. The power of economic elites
- 3. Organized business and direct taxation in Chile : restricting the agenda
- 4. Circumventing business power in Chile : progress at the margins
- 5. Weak economic elites and direct tax policy success in Argentina
- 6. Sectoral tax politics in Argentina : finance
- 7. Sectoral politics in Argentina : Agriculture
- 8. Bolivia's tax policy tightrope : powerful elites and mobilized masses
- 9. Tax developments under left rule in Bolivia and right rule in Chile
- 10. Conclusions
- Appendix 1.1: Latin America's Tax Problem ; Appendix 1.2: Tax Revenue and Commodity Booms ; Appendix 1.3: Case Selection ; Appendix 4.1: Chilean Case Universe ; Appendix 5.1: Expected Revenue Yield of Direct Tax Reforms.