Adam Smith on public expenditure and taxation
This paper presents Adam Smith’s view on taxation and public expenditure, by means of an almost literal reading of the Wealth of Nations famous passages on the “duties of the sovereign” and on the “maxims of taxation”. Contrarily to the commonest usage of these passages, we will show that their core...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2009-05-01
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| Series: | Nova Economia |
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| Online Access: | http://revistas.face.ufmg.br/index.php/novaeconomia/article/view/386 |