====================== HES POSTING ==================== 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 ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]