No effective taxation without representation is, in a nutshell, the moral of Jin Xu’s exhaustive book Empire of Silver, which takes us through the history of silver in China. In reality, it is the history of the faults of the Chinese tax system: Its inability to quickly and efficiently muster resources in times of sudden need through […]
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Picture This, a Bellini in Cipriani’s
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