Taxes define durable structures of inequality, delimit the capacities of the state, and affect social behaviors from marriage to philanthropic giving. Conflict over taxation has been a driving force in history from the French and American Revolutions to the tax cuts of the George W. Bush administration, and it continues to drive competition among states in a globalizing world.

Keynote speaker: Charles Tilly, Columbia University

Also speaking: Fred Block, Elliot Brownlee, Andrea Campbell, Robin Einhorn, Chris Howard, Edgar Kiser, Evan Lieberman, Isaac Martin, Ajay Mehrotra, Beverly Moran, Monica Prasad, Joel Slemrod, Nancy Staudt, Joseph Thorndike

The conference is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Elisabeth Anderson at elisabeth@northwestern.edu