Review of Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage’s Taxing the Rich: a History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, 288 pp.

Daniel Halliday is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Melbourne University. He works on topics at the intersection of political philosophy and economics. His monograph The Inheritance of Wealth: Justice, Equality, and the Right to Bequeath will be published in early 2018 by Oxford University Press.