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title: "Give-and-Take"
subtitle: "What citizens would think about taxation, if they could."
description: "Drafts for Maximilian Held's dissertation on taxation and democracy."
author:
  - name: "Maximilian Held"
    affiliation: "Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)"
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> The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its polity may prepare --- all this and more is written in its fiscal history, stripped of all phrases.
> He who knows how to listen to its message here discerns the **thunder of world history** more clearly than anywhere else.
>
> -- Joseph @Schumpeter [1918: 6, emphasis added]

> The unforced force of the better argument: [@Habermas1996, 305]
> The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another. [@Habermas1976: 2f]  
> [A]nyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated. [@Habermas1979: 2]
> Reaching understanding, (...) **the inherent telos of human speech**.
> [@Habermas-1984: 287]

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# Abstracts {-}


## English {-}

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## German {-}

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# Colophon {-}

> Free as in freedom, not free beer.
>
> --- Richard Stallman, [Free Software Foundation](https://www.fsf.org)

This book was written using **free and open source software (FOSS)**.
This is a [bookdown](http://bookdown.org/) book, written inside [RStudio](http://www.rstudio.com/ide/) and [Atom](http://www.atom.io).
The book is available in several formats at [`https://maxheld.de/schumpermas`](https://maxheld.de/schumpermas).
The complete source of the book can be found on [github](https://github.com/maxheld83/schumpermas).
The website is updated after every commit by [travis-ci](https://travis-ci.com/).

The [rmarkdown](https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com) source of this book interweaves code and prose, following Donald @Knuth-1984's suggestion for **Literate Programming**.
The [R](https://www.r-project.org) code will usually not be reproduced in print, but can always be inspected in the [source of this document](https://github.com/maxheld83/schumpermas), *underneath* the respective operation or result.

This research project strives towards the ideals of **open and reproducible science**.
All results can be reproduced from the raw data using only the scripts contained herein.
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