Private Wealth and Public Revenue in Latin America : Business Power and Tax Politics (Hardcover)

1. Tax policy and economic elites: going where the money is; 2. The power of economic elites; 3. Organized business and direct taxation in Chile: restricting the agenda; 4. Circumventing business power in Chile: progress at the margins; 5. Weak economic elites and direct tax policy successes in Argentina; 6. Sectoral tax politics in Argentina: finance; 7. Sectoral tax politics in Argentina: agriculture; 8. Bolivia's tax-policy tightrope: powerful elites and mobilized masses; 9. Tax developments under left rule in Bolivia and right rule in Chile; 10. Conclusions.