Thursday, December 1
13:45 – 14:00 Welcome
Venue: Institute for European Global Studies
Madeleine Herren-Oesch, University of Basel
14:00 – 17:00 Session I: The Politics of International Taxation
Chair: Martin Lengwiler, University of Basel
Tax Lawyers of the World, Unite! Mitchell B. Carroll,
Transnational Tax Networks, and International Capital
Matthieu Leimgruber, Zurich University
International Double Taxation and Multinational
Enterprises: A Comparison Between the UK and Japan
(ca. 1920s – 1940s)
Ryo Izawa, Shiga University
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break
The Ambivalent State: Taxation and Eurodollar Financing
of the British Economy (ca. 1965 – 1971)
Seung-Woo Kim, Cambridge University
Swiss Fiscal Policies, Global Tax Competition, and Notions
of Tax Justice, 1960s – 2010s
Gisela Huerlimann, ETHZ Zurich
17:00 – 18:30 Coffee and light dinner break and transfer to
lecture hall
18:30 – 20:00 Public Lecture
Venue: Kollegiengebäude HS 120
Aristocrats and Taxes: Some Thoughts on the Origins of
Inequality
Jacob Soll, University of Southern California
Friday, December 2
09:00 – 11:30 Session II: The Postwar Moment Around the Globe
Chair: Madeleine Herren-Oesch, University of Basel
States of Occupation: Imposing New Deal Tax Policy on
Germany and Japan, 1945 – 1955
Jason Scott Smith, University of New Mexico
Workers “Long-Held Dream”: The Soviet Attempt to
Abolish Income Taxes, 1960 – 1962
Kristy Ironside, University of Manchester
Walking a Tightrope: Business, the Tax System, and Tax
Conscience in Greece, 1955 – 1989
Zoi Pittaki, University of Glasgow
11:30 – 12:45 Lunch Break
12:45 – 16:30 Session III: From Progressive Taxes to Neoliberalism
Chair: Vanessa Ogle, University of Pennsylvania
Progressivity and Sectionalism in the American
Income Tax
Robin Einhorn, University of California-Berkeley
The Long Twentieth Century of U.S. Progressive Taxation
Joseph Thorndike, Tax Analysts
Taxation and Inequality in the 1980s: A Comparison of
Western European Experiences
Marc Buggeln, Humboldt University Berlin
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee Break
Tax Planning in an Era of High Tax Rates
Steven A. Bank, University of California-Los Angeles
Whitaker & Baxter: Pioneers of the Anti-Tax Revolt in
California from the New Deal to Pat Brown
Matteo Muzio, Università degli Studi di Genova
16:30 – 17:30 Coffee break and transfer to lecture hall
17:30 – 19:00 Conference Keynote
Venue: Kollegiengebäude HS 117
Running to Stay in Place: Money in American Politics
Monica Prasad, Northwestern University
19:30 Conference Dinner
Saturday, December 3
09:00 – 11:00 Session IV: Empire and After
Chair: Corinne Pernet, University of Basel
Customs in the Two Congos (1886 – 1914): How to Control
Uncontrollable Borders to Tax International Trade
Bas De Roo, Ghent University
The Politics of Taxation in the French Colonial Empire,
1900 – 1939
Madeline Woker, Columbia University
Twentieth-Century Innovation in Tax Administration and
Tax Law: Center vs. Periphery (Mandate Palestine, Israel)
Assaf Likhovski, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15 Final Roundtable Discussion
Madeleine Herren-Oesch, University of Basel
Glenda Sluga, University of Sydney
Vanessa Ogle, University of Pennsylvania