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This is a request for help--does anyone know a good history of various govt 
attempts to impose or relax inheritance taxes.  In his biography of 
Schumpeter, Wolfgang Stolper notes Schumpeter's warning that inheritance 
taxes may harm the basic motivatation to create a family position-- "that 
tendency to accumulate  in order *not* to consume". I am 
interested as well, then, if there is any treatment of the history of 
economic thought on inheritance taxes. It seems that Schumpeter, who 
considered Francis Galton as one of the three greatest sociologists (Vico 
and Marx being the others), thought it important that ability, as well as 
wealth, run in stocks. 
 
Thanks in advance, 
Rakesh Bhandari 
 
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