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Beyond the Social Contract
An Anthropology of Tax
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Beyond the Social Contract
An Anthropology of Tax
About this book
Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking. The contributors shed light on contemporary fiscal structures and public debates about the moralities, practices, and imaginaries of tax systems, using tax to explore the nature of citizenship, personal freedom, and moral and economic value. Their ethnographically grounded accounts show how taxation may be influenced by spaces of fiscal sovereignty that exist outside or alongside the state, taking various forms, from alternative religious communities to economic collectives.
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Yes, you can access Beyond the Social Contract by Nicolette Makovicky, Robin Smith, Nicolette Makovicky,Robin Smith in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Taxation. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Tax Beyond the Social Contract
- Chapter 1. Taxes for Independence: Rejecting a Fiscal Model of Reciprocity in Peri-urban Bolivia
- Chapter 2. God’s Delivery State: Taxes, Tithes, and a Rightful Return in Urban Ghana
- Chapter 3. The Fiscal Commons: Tax Evasion, the State, and Commoning in a Catalonian Cooperative
- Chapter 4. Contesting the Social Contract: Tax Reform and Economic Governance in Istria, Croatia
- Chapter 5. Into and Out of Citizenship, through Personal Tax Payments: Romanian Migrants’ Leveraging of British Self-Employment
- Chapter 6. The Worth of the ‘While’: Time and Taxes in a Finnish Timebank
- Afterword: Putting Together the Anthropology of Tax and the Anthropology of Ethics
- Index