Where’s the Sex in Fiscal Sociology? Taxation and Gender in Comparative Perspective

1. Introduction: Beyond War Getting “sex” into the title of a chapter in book on a subject as daunting as “fiscal sociology” makes obvious marketing sense. Yet in fact something important is missing from the other chapters, each valuable and interesting in its own right. The field of “fiscal sociology,” born in Schumpeter’s stirring invocation of the “thunder of history” (Schumpeter 1991 [1918]), has dwelt, as many of the other…