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Rubin, the third economist in three years to speak at Harvard’s Commencement ceremonies, has been called the “steward of America’s economy?? by former White House Chief of Staff John D. Podesta. Rubin follows Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and the Nobel prize-winning scholar of the developing world’s economics, professor emeritus Amartya...
...interesting effect of such a review is the exaggerated importance of detail and pattern. The taxes surveyed, contested or not, concern either property already acquired (land, assets, beards) or some kind of procedural fee (marriage, burial, customs duties and a flat fee for foreigners to participate in the local economy??however problematic, by our standards, this determination of foreignness may have been). The detail which stands out, making the list seem more like a Borgesian encyclopedia than a record of tax law, is that of souls...