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.

“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

• 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