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Wealth and Our Commonwealth:
Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes

(Beacon Press, 2003)

William H. Gates, Sr. and Chuck Collins
Foreword by Paul Volcker

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Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, America: Who Really Pays the Taxes? (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994).

Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, The Great American Tax Dodge (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2000).

Peter Barnes, Who Owns the Sky? (Earth Island Press, 2001).

Peter Barnes, The People’s Land (Emmaus, PA.: Rodale Press, 1975).

Stuart D. Brandes, Warhogs: A History of War Profits in America (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1997).

Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and Alan S. Murray, Showdown at Gucci Gulch: Lawyers, Lobbyists, and the Unlikely Triumph of Tax Reform (New York: Random House, 1987).

Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays, Edited by Edward C. Kirkland (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1962).

Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life on John D. Rockefeller (Random House, 1998).

Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1990).

Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel, Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity (New York: The New Press, 2000).

Hernando deSoto, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (New York: Basic Books, 2000).

Louis A. Ferleger and Jay R. Mandle, No Pain, No Gain: Taxes, Productivity, and Economic Growth (New York: Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1992).

William G. Gale, James R. Hines, Jr., Joel Slemrod, Editors, Rethinking Estate and Gift Taxation (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2001).

Jeff Gates, The Ownership Solution: Toward a Shared Capitalism for the Twenty-First Century (Reading, Mass.: Addison Wesley, 1998).

Jeff Gates, Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street from Wall Street (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Books, 2000).

Charles Geisler and Gail Daneker, editors, Property and Values: Alternatives to Public and Private Ownership (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2000).

Henry George, Progress and Poverty (Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1955) Originally published in 1880.

Robert W. Gordon, The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1992).

James L. Huston, Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765-1900 (Baton Rouge, University of Louisiana Press, 1998).

Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History (New York: Harper Collins, 1995)

Lisa A. Keister, Wealth in America: Trends in Wealth Inequality (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

David Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Paul Krugman, Fuzzy Math: The Essential Guide to the Bush Tax Plan (New York: WW Norton, 2001).

Lewis Lapham, Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion (New York: Ballantine Books, 1988)

Charles Lewis and Bill Allison and the Center for Public Integrity, The Cheating of America: How Tax Avoidance and Evasion by the Super Rich Are Costing the Country Billions –and What You Can Do About It (New York: HarperCollins, 2001).

Janet Lowe, Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World’s Greatest Investor (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997).

Robert K. Miller, Jr. and Stephen J. McNamee, editors, Inheritance and Wealth in America (New York and London: Plenum Press, 1998).

David McCullough, John Adams (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001).

Nathan Miller, Theodore Roosevelt: A Life (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1992).

Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Random House, 1979).

Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex (New York: Random House, 2001)

George E. Mowry, Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement (New York: Hill and Wang, 1942).

Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel, The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).

National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Economic Justice for All: Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy (Washington, D.C.: National Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1986).

Arthur M. Okun, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1975).

Thomas Paine, Common Sense (New York: Barnes and Noble books, 1995).

Joseph A. Pechman, Tax Reform, The Rich and the Poor (Washington, D. C., Brookings Institution, 1989).

Kevin Phillips, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich (Broadway Books, a Division of Random House, 2002).

Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Touchstone Books, 2001).

Sidney Ratner, Taxation and Democracy in America, revised edition (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1967).

Joseph William Singer, The Edges of the Field: Lessons on the Obligations of Ownership (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000).

Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko, The Millionaire Next Door: The Suprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996).

Philippa Strum, Brandeis: Beyond Progressivism (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1993).

Alan A. Tait, The Taxation of Personal Wealth (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1967).

Meir Tamari, The Challenge of Wealth: A Jewish Perspective on Earning and Spending Money (Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 1995).

Lester C. Thurow, Generating Inequality: Mechanisms of Distribution in the U.S. Economy (Basic Books, 1975).

John F. Witte, The Politics and Development of the Federal Income Tax (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985).

Edward N. Wolff, Top Heavy: The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done About It (New York: The New Press, 2002).

Articles

Joseph J. Cordes and C. Eugene Steuele, "Death, Taxes and Charity" (Foundation News and Commentary, September/October 1999, Vol. 40, No. 5.)

Feenberg, Daniel R. and Poterba, James M., "Income Inequality and the Incomes of Very High-Income Taxpayers: Evidence from Tax Returns" from National Bureau of Economic Research, Tax Policy and the Economy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993).

Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro, "A Sensible Tax on Fortunes" New York Times, March 22, 2001.

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