Revealed Preferences for Car Tax Cuts: an Empirical Study of Perceived Fiscal Incidence

Voting in an election in which elimination of the local car tax is the central issue shows how a highly visible universal tax cut can prevail in the electoral process even if benefits are skewed toward upper income households. These results are consistent with positive models of fiscal structure choice in which fiscal systems are the consequence of support maximizing politicians attempting to supply net benefits to easily identifiable interest groups without generating significant opposition from other groups.personal property taxes, tax revolt,targeted universalism

Technology could prove to be a gamechanger for Africa

In the fourth of a series of articles ahead of the 2016 LSE Africa Summit which will explore the themes of Challenging Conventions and Thinking Beyond Investment, Samuel Baker examines the potential technology has to boost Africa’s growth

The eCommentary Machine Project

The eCommentary Machine web application ("eComma") enables groups of students, scholars, or general readers to build collaborative commentaries on a text and to search, display, and share those commentaries online

Far more than an all-Africa passport is needed for a fully-integrated continent

Samuel Baker analyses why an all-Africa passport is the right policy at the wrong time

Land Grant Application- Baker, Samuel (North Yarmouth)

Land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office on behalf of Samuel Baker for service in the Revolutionary War, by their widow Mary.https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_me_land_office/1053/thumbnail.jp

Rwanda’s performance contracts could serve as a model for other African countries

In the first of a series of articles ahead of the 2016 LSE Africa Summit which will explore the themes of Challenging Conventions and Thinking Beyond Investment, Samuel Baker argues that African countries should replicate Rwanda’s model of performance contracts to fight corruption as well as boost investment and economic growth

“The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture

This essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to essays and poetry by Arnold’s successor as a water-obsessed, culture commanding poet-critic, T. S. Eliot. The essay seeks to bring out how aquatic figures of dissociation and dissolution surface in these authors’ virtualized marine environments, and there structure ways culture has been thought, felt, imagined, and otherwise experienced. It attends especially to the amphibious life of mermaids and mermen. These figures emblematize the idea of culture when they allegorize the movement of thought across boundaries between the human and the inhuman, the social and the natural

Letter from Samuel Baker to James B. Finley

Baker reports that conditions are decidedly worse for him due to lack of cooperation from Brother Brunson, difficulties with Brother Tate, and failure to be reimbursed for his expenses. He again asks Rev. Finley to visit him, and requests his advice. Abstract Number - 14https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/1013/thumbnail.jp

Letter from Samuel Baker to James B. Finley

Baker describes conditions in the Detroit Circuit -- regions of River Rough, Upper & Lower River Huron, River Reason, Detroit, and Miami. He asks for advice from Rev. Finley and requests a visit. Abstract Number - 673https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/1768/thumbnail.jp