Billionaires Should Not Exist — Here’s WhyTeen Vogue
Connecticut McDonald’s workers, union activists, get their jobs back in federal labor board decision Courant
Boston Starbucks workers ‘inspired’ by Buffalo union, seek votes as movement spreads Yahoo News
Widower: Forgiving is the way forward Toledo Blade
The Year of the Abject: Making Sense of NonsenseNotes from Disgraceland Another must-read (together with the above).
Michael A. Livingston (Rutgers), Tax and Culture: Convergence, Divergence, and the Future of Tax Law (Cambridge University Press 2020):
Tax scholars traditionally emphasize economics and assume that all tax systems can be evaluated in more or less the same way. By applying the insights of anthropology, sociology, and other social sciences, Michael A. Livingston demonstrates that tax systems frequently pursue different values and that the convergence of tax systems is frequently overstated. In Tax and Culture, he applies these insights to specific countries, such as China and India, and specific tax issues, including progressivity, tax avoidance, and the emerging area of environmental taxation. Livingston concludes that the concept of a global tax culture is, in many cases, merely a reflection of Western hegemony, and is unlikely to survive the changes implicit in the rise of non-Western nations and cultures.
The book Tax and Culture: Convergence, Divergence, and the Future of Tax Law, by Michael Livingston, makes an exceptionally valuable contribution to the field of critical tax scholarship, and to tax legal scholarship more broadly. — Ann Mumford, British Tax Review
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