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On the Shifting and Incidence of Taxation

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  • In Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman

    Among his better-known works are On the Shifting and Incidence of Taxation (1892) and Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice (1894; rev. ed. 1908). In 1931 he completed a famous study of the tax laws of Cuba. Seligman was also an authority on the history of economic thought, and his…

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