Taxation and the worlds of welfare

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 431-457

  Prasad, Monica ^a   Deng, Yingying ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capitalist systems; Taxation; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650530367     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: 1475147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwp005     Document Type: Article

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