Volume III · Managed Decline
Redistribution and Working-Class Prosperity
Research preview · manuscript under review
A working-paper argument about taxation, investment, capital formation, and local employment, compared with alternative approaches to distribution and welfare.
Research programme: Siddhartha Harsh Wardhan · Preview updated
The research question
Which combinations of taxation, investment and public spending improve working-class security?
How it connects to Volume III
Introduces a competing policy argument about capital mobility, municipal revenue and access to jobs and ownership. It gives the volume’s tax proposals a comparison to test.
Evidence and limits
The source title argues that taxing shareholders and investors does not lift the working class; that is a thesis under review. Compare tax incidence, revenue stability, public-service benefits and distributional outcomes across jurisdictions before drawing a policy conclusion.
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