Shaping Taxpayers

Lotta Björklund Larsen currently holds the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Thematic Studies – Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, Sweden.

• IntroductionChapter 1. From Control to Compassion: A History of the Swedish Tax AgencyChapter 2. Talking with People: What Can We Learn from an Attitudinal Survey?Chapter 3. X Per Cent: The Birth of a Number at the Random Audit ControlChapter 4. To Publish or Not? Communicating and Legitimizing Concerns Regarding the Project’s ResultChapter 5. Values in ActionNotesReference ListIndex

“How tax compliance is shaped merits much more attention than it has received in anthropology and the social sciences. The book offers a wonderful rendering of the true strangeness and contingency of familiar routines – something the best social theory does.” · Liz McFall, Open University“Shaping Taxpayers will be a significant, indeed, ground-breaking study that will propel this vein of interdisciplinary scholarship, concerned with social studies of finance, cultural economy, fiscal sociology and bureaucratic practice, into the mainstream.” · Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine