02328nam a22003378a 4500 CR9781139519427 UkCbUP 20171023141014.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120525s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139519427 (ebook) 9781107033160 (hardback) 9781316603390 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda HJ2971 .P65 2013 336.200952/09044 23 The Political Economy of Transnational Tax Reform : The Shoup Mission to Japan in Historical Context / Edited by W. Elliot Brownlee, Eisaku Ide, Yasunori Fukagai. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (482 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). This volume of essays explores the history of the US tax mission to Japan during the occupation following World War II. Under General MacArthur, economist Carl S. Shoup led the mission with the charge of framing a tax system for Japan designed to strengthen democracy and accelerate economic recovery. The volume examines the sources, conduct and effects of the mission and situates the mission within the history of international financial and fiscal reform. The book begins by establishing the context of progressive social investigations of taxation, including Shoup's earlier tax missions to France and Cuba. It then goes on to explore the Japanese background to the Shoup mission and the process by which American and Japanese tax experts shaped their recommendations. The book then assesses and explains the mission's accomplishments in the context of the political economies of the United States and Japan. It concludes by analyzing the global implications of the mission, which became iconic among international tax reformers. Brownlee, W. Elliot, editor of compilation. Ide, Eisaku, editor of compilation. Fukagai, Yasunori, editor of compilation. Print version: 9781107033160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139519427 230797 230797