How we can understand major events in world history through the prism of taxation - a podcast by Institute of Economic Affairs

In Dominic Frisby’s latest book, Daylight Robbery, we are invited to understand tax in a more fundamental and wide-reaching way. Frisby argues that we can understand many of the major events in world history through the prism of taxation. Wars, revolutions and even architectural design have typically, Frisby argues, been shaped – or even caused – by one form of tax or another.

In this week's podcast, Frisby reveals to the IEA's Director General Mark Littlewood that death and taxes might well be the only certainties in life, but that the latter has a much wider and deeper impact on the world we live in than we might initially realise.

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