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Editor’s Note: Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was the S.J. Hall distinguished professor of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This is an unpublished manuscript from the Rothbard papers, written in 1952 for the Volker Fund. In a letter to the Volker Fund’s Herbert C. Cournuelle, on August 18, 1952, Rothbard gave his reasons for writing about the Blum and Kalven essay: “[I]t is certainly an important one…. However, it is decidedly an article of mixed quality, containing many errors and significant omissions. Because of this, I am at present engaged in writing a detailed critique of the article.” The article is Walter J. Blum and Harry J. Kalven, Jr., “The Uneasy Case for Progressive Taxation,” University of Chicago Law Review 19 (1952): 417–520.
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Rothbard, M.N. The uneasy case for degressive taxation: A critique of Blum and Kalven. Quart J Austrian Econ 4, 43–61 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12113-001-1002-3
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