For Good and Evil
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For Good and Evil
| Full title | For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization |
|---|---|
| Author | Charles Adams |
| Published | 1993 |
| Pages | 536 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Charles Adams reads world history through taxation — Egypt, Rome, the Rosetta Stone as a tax document, the Muslim conquests, the American and French revolutions — arguing that tax policy is a recurring cause of collapse. A single-variable history, always partly wrong and often the fastest way to see a pattern. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named in the replies to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025. Full list: What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Taxes — the variable.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.