NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DO TAX HAVENS FLOURISH? James R. Hines Jr. Working Paper 10936 http://www.nber.org/papers/w10936 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 November 2004 I am indebted to Claudia Martinez for excellent research assistance‚ to her and to Rosanne Altshuler‚ Reuven Avi-Yonah‚ Daniel Mitchell‚ Joel Slemrod‚ and particularly James Poterba‚ for helpful comments on previous drafts of this paper.The views expressed herein are those of
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In my readings of chapter seven through twelve I learned how anthropologists views such topics as: subsistence patterns‚ economics‚ marriage and the family‚ kinship and descent‚ sex and gender‚ and social stratification. In chapter seven‚ Subsistence Patterns‚ I learned there are five major food-procurement categories: food foraging‚ horticulture‚ pastoralism‚ intensive agriculture‚ and industrial agriculture. I had heard of some of these terms‚ but not all of them. It was quite interesting reading
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her character explained using the psychodynamic theory. The philosophical and highly political novel‚ The Unbearable Lightness of Being follows the lives of two men‚ two women‚ and a dog through the communist period of Czechoslovak. Tereza‚ wife of Tomas‚ is an intellectual and a photographer who grew up in a remote town in the country. Tereza’s mother was a beauty in her youth who married early due to pregnancy and left both her husband and child to live with a degenerate. Tereza eventually had to
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(Chairman and Grandson of Founder)[1] Bata is a worldwide well known brand‚ being one of the most successfully franchising multi-site stores in the world which was founded in a small town Zlín in today Czech republic in 1894 by Tomáš Baťa who made an emphasis on modern methods of manufacture and top management. Today he is always considered to be an innovator whose revolutionary methods are still inspirating.[2] 1 1.1 Bata company 1894-1932 The founder of the company
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The video “The Girl Code” from the Simpsons‚ pokes fun at the world’s dependence on technology. In the episode Homer talks about the internet and all its crazy words‚ then he says “Siri‚ tell Amazon to drone me a beer”. Some more examples of satire in it are‚ the NSA bug in the iPad that took a picture of them and crawled off‚ and Homer saying “The plant isn’t gonna inspect itself” and then a machine turning on and self inspecting the plant. Most of these examples of satire are based around technology
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you imagine being denied the right to read and write all because of the color of your skin? Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was denied this right when a white child snached a book away from her because it was illegal for a black person to learn how to read (Hine‚ 2000). Mary McLeod Bethune was born on July 10‚ 1875 by Mayesville‚ South Carolina. She was an educator‚ civil rights leader‚ and government official who founded the National Council of Negro Women and Bethune-Cookman College (“National Council of
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Although Africans were not strangers to slave trade or to the keeping of slaves before the 15th century‚ the tragic voyage across the Middle Passage to America strongly impacted the role of African slaves to a cruel degree. As the demand for slaves in America increased‚ an outstanding number of slaves were transported to America for four centuries. When the opportunity granted itself to pursue freedom‚ Africans took a stand to gain justice and equality by joining the war and executing impactful roles
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groups of Jews arrive to his work camp‚ Göth randomly starts shooting the Jews from his veranda. At first‚ the Jews thought they are now safe since they have survived the chaos in the city. Therefore‚ Göth shoots them to rise up the tension of the scene. His shots cause chaos at the camp and the view of the chaos from his veranda makes the Jews look more animal like and vulnerable. Later in the film‚ the Jews’ wedding scene‚ Schindler’s social party scene and Göth torturing Helen scene are shown by juxtaposition
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Even though Hollywood isn’t known for producing historically accurate movies‚ Schindler’s List can be considered as a somewhat accurate representation of the Holocaust. There was an actual Oskar Schindler‚ and a real Amon Göth‚ and a factory by the name of Deutsche Emailwaren Fabrik‚ and a camp by the name of Paszów. Living conditions of the camps were portrayed very well‚ as was the time line of the movie. However‚ some parts of the movie were made up or inaccurate. For example‚ the movie shows
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Green‚ Rebecca. "The Ethics of Sin Taxes." Public Health Nursing 28.1 (2010): 68-77. Gruber‚ Jonathan. "Tobacco At the Crossroads: The Past and Future of Smoking Regulation in the United States." Journal of Economic Perspectives 15.2 (2001): 193-212. Hines‚ James R. Jr. "Taxing Consumption and Other Sins." Journal of Economic Perspectives 21.1 (2007): 49-68. Johnson‚ Cathy M. and Kenneth J. Meier. "The Wages of Sin: Taxing America ’s Legal Vices." The Western Political Quarterly 43.3 (1990): 577-595
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