Caroline Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 5946979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7751-3523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shifting tax incidence
We study how prices respond when a 25% gross receipts tax remitted by cannabis manufacturers was eliminated in Washington state and the retail excise tax was simultaneously increased from 25% to 37%. Standard theory suggests that this change should have increased welfare for manufacturers, retailers, and consumers; instead, our analysis shows that the reform unexpectedly shifted benefits toward manufacturers at the expense of retailers and consum…
The behavioral response to housing transfer taxes
On the Hardness of Virtue, or Fetishizing Disinterest in Beaumarchais' Les Deux amis
An exploration of the self-delusional structures in Beaumarchais's bourgeois drama Les Deux amis, that support the iniquities engendered by commerce in mid-eighteenth-century Lyon. At the dawn of capitalistic enterprise, the protagonist of the drame bourgeois suspends knowledge of his own rapaciousness by emphatically cultivating a stance of selfless virtue as he pursues his commercial interests. It is the paradox of the genre that the very attem…
Editors' Preface
Freedom's Missed Moment
On 26 July 1794, the last day of his rule and his life, Maximilien Robespierre sounded a note of doom from the podium of the National Convention. Although he had led the Convention, the Montagnard party, the Committee of Public Safety, and by extension France itself for over a year, Robespierre felt the political tides turning against him and his self-proclaimed despotism of liberty. Under his stewardship, violence had devastated the French polit…
Mask and Allegorical Personification
Overcoming Excess
MLN - Volume 114, Number 4, September 1999 (French Issue)
Writing/Drawing/Color
Writing/Drawing/Color
Mask and Allegorical Personification
Overcoming Excess
MLN - Volume 114, Number 4, September 1999 (French Issue)
Editors' Preface
Freedom's Missed Moment
On 26 July 1794, the last day of his rule and his life, Maximilien Robespierre sounded a note of doom from the podium of the National Convention. Although he had led the Convention, the Montagnard party, the Committee of Public Safety, and by extension France itself for over a year, Robespierre felt the political tides turning against him and his self-proclaimed despotism of liberty. Under his stewardship, violence had devastated the French polit…
On the Hardness of Virtue, or Fetishizing Disinterest in Beaumarchais' Les Deux amis
An exploration of the self-delusional structures in Beaumarchais's bourgeois drama Les Deux amis, that support the iniquities engendered by commerce in mid-eighteenth-century Lyon. At the dawn of capitalistic enterprise, the protagonist of the drame bourgeois suspends knowledge of his own rapaciousness by emphatically cultivating a stance of selfless virtue as he pursues his commercial interests. It is the paradox of the genre that the very attem…
The behavioral response to housing transfer taxes
Shifting tax incidence
We study how prices respond when a 25% gross receipts tax remitted by cannabis manufacturers was eliminated in Washington state and the retail excise tax was simultaneously increased from 25% to 37%. Standard theory suggests that this change should have increased welfare for manufacturers, retailers, and consumers; instead, our analysis shows that the reform unexpectedly shifted benefits toward manufacturers at the expense of retailers and consum…
Art (6 works) · Art history (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Bourgeoisie (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works)