Author Meets Reader invites Carleton students and the community to join a discussion on new books published by members of the Carleton University Faculty of Public Affairs.

This month features Coercion and Social Welfare in Public Finance: Economic and Political Perspectives, edited by Stanley Winer.

About the Book:
It has been said that taxes are the price of civilization. Actually it is the coercive power of the state to levy taxation that is the real requirement. The essays in this book reach for modern historical, economic and political understandings of coercion in public finance.

About the Author:
Stanley Winer is the Canada Research Chair and Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration and the Department of Economics. His research combines economics, politics, game theory and statistics to build empirical models of why governments do what they do. Recent work focuses on the meaning, measurement and consequences of political competitiveness in Canada over the history of the modern state and across Indian states since Independence.