Martin Hearson is Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies and International Tax Program Lead at the International Centre for Tax and Development. Follow him on X @martinhearson.
Martin Hearson's Imposing Standards: The North-South Dimension to Global Tax Politics is a timely monograph that dives into the puzzling history of tax treaty negotiations between higher-income countries in the global North and lower-income countries in the global South during the last half-century. Imposing Standards is an important, well-written, and astutely argued book that casts light on a hitherto unexplored chapter in the history of global tax politics, contributes a novel theoretical approach, and establishes a new paradigm for the international tax discipline. * H-Net *