{"id":31279,"date":"2015-11-20T09:37:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T09:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=31279"},"modified":"2015-11-20T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T09:37:21","slug":"high-praise-for-the-joy-of-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/11\/20\/high-praise-for-the-joy-of-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"High praise for the Joy of Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Chown (who I have never met, but who I follow on Twitter) has written a review of The Joy of Tax in the Times Higher Education.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/books\/review-the-joy-of-tax-richard-murphy-bantam\" target=\"_blank\">In it he says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u00a0have never met Murphy, but I\u2019ve become aware of him <a class=\"processed\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardJMurphy\" data-mz=\"\">through Twitter<\/a>, not only because I\u00a0often agree with his thought-provoking tweets but also because they have helped open my eyes to the economic reality behind the fantasy. And here he has done the impossible: writing a book on tax that is not the literary equivalent of a handful of sleeping pills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>High praise indeed. I am grateful to Marcus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/books\/review-the-joy-of-tax-richard-murphy-bantam\" target=\"_blank\">It's worth a read in its own right<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Chown (who I have never met, but who I follow on Twitter) has written a review of The Joy of Tax in the Times<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/11\/20\/high-praise-for-the-joy-of-tax\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy-of-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}