Federal Taxation in America

W. Elliot Brownlee's books include The Political Economy of Transnational Tax Reform: The Shoup Mission to Japan (co-edited), Federal Taxation in America: A Short History, The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism and its Legacies (co-edited), Funding the Modern American State: The Rise and Fall of the Era of Easy Finance, 1941–1995, Dynamics of Ascent: A History of the American Economy, Women in the American Economy: A Documentary History, 1675–1929 (with Mary M. Brownlee), and Progressivism and Economic Growth: The Wisconsin Income Tax, 1911–1929. Brownlee has held visiting professor appointments at Princeton University, New Jersey, the University of Tokyo, and Yokohama National University, Japan. He was a Bicentennial Lecturer, the US Department of the Treasury and has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, Massachusetts.

1. Anglo-American regimes, 1607–1788; 2. Creating a modern fiscal state, 1788–1861; 3. The Civil War regime, 1861–1916; 4. The World War I regime, 1916–35; 5. Roosevelt's regimes, 1935–45; 6. The era of easy finance, 1945–80; 7. 'Reagan Revolution', 1980–86; 8. Fiscal consolidation and revival of the old tax regime, 1986–2000; 9. Victory for a retro-liberal regime, 2000–9; 10. Fiscal paralysis, 2009–15.