The Tax that Dare Not Speak...

[Carrol Cox]

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> At 07:17 PM 5/21/98 -0500, Carrol wrote:
> >Did I miss a post? Has someone mentioned what the "Tobin Tax" is? I have
> >never heard of it and the discussion I've read so far gives no clue.
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> Some time ago I picked up a one-off copy of the 1996 UNCTAD Review which
> had two articles reviewing these proposals. UNCTAD has been a focus within

[SNIP]

What is it?  Just a preliminary label of 10 words or so. I didn't ask for
an understanding of it. I asked for a semi-intelligible label of what it
is that is to be understood. If it can't even be named to non-economists
that haven't heard of it before, then.....

Carrol