The recently re-branded and highly digitalised Bolivian Tax Office, Servicio de Impuestos
Nacionales (SIN), works to consolidate various socio-economic groups, such as the Aymara …

Following the electoral success of left wing and pro-indigenous President Evo Morales, the
indigenous poor in Bolivia find themselves at the centre of a new vision of the state, echoed …

In this article I discuss the workings of regimes of value and the ways in which social,
cultural, moral, and economic relations act to structure monetary frameworks. It is based on …

Abstract In peri-urban Cochabamba, Bolivia, the 'informally'employed population reject the
government's fiscal offer of taxes in return for welfare, infrastructure, and rights, including the …

This volume represents a timely confluence of scholarly currents. Over the past three
decades, historians, sociologists, and political scientists have come to recognize the …

Indigenous men and women in the Andes have reached unprecedented levels of
politicalmobilization and are gradually stripping the concept of citizenship of its patriarchal …

Tax systems in Latin America are characterized by low collection, a higher incidence of
regressive taxes and mechanisms, little redistribution, and poor compliance. Policymakers …

If the capitalist state could choose its ideal citizenry, this citizenry would be middle class. It
would be so in the conventional sense of the term: modern and individualist, ambitious and …

Drawing principally on eight months of anthropological fieldwork in Havana, Cuba in 2006,
this dissertation explores how morality is articulated in everyday economic life among …

This book addresses the negotiation of categorizations in colonial societies in Spanish
America from a new vantage point: fiscality. In early modern empires (poll) taxes were a …