Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States write by Andrew Monson. This book was released on 2015-04-23. Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inspired by the new fiscal history, this book represents the first global survey of taxation in the premodern world. What emerges is a rich variety of institutions, including experiments with sophisticated instruments such as sovereign debt and fiduciary money, challenging the notion of a typical premodern stage of fiscal development. The studies also reveal patterns and correlations across widely dispersed societies that shed light on the basic factors driving the intensification, abatement, and innovation of fiscal regimes. Twenty scholars have contributed perspectives from a wide range of fields besides history, including anthropology, economics, political science and sociology. The volume's coverage extends beyond Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East to East Asia and the Americas, thereby transcending the Eurocentric approach of most scholarship on fiscal history.
The Rise of Fiscal States
The Rise of Fiscal States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of Fiscal States write by Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla. This book was released on 2012-05-24. The Rise of Fiscal States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leading economic historians present a groundbreaking series of country case studies exploring the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia.
Tax Capacity and Growth
Tax Capacity and Growth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tax Capacity and Growth write by Vitor Gaspar. This book was released on 2016-12-02. Tax Capacity and Growth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is there a minimum tax to GDP ratio associated with a significant acceleration in the process of growth and development? We give an empirical answer to this question by investigating the existence of a tipping point in tax-to-GDP levels. We use two separate databases: a novel contemporary database covering 139 countries from 1965 to 2011 and a historical database for 30 advanced economies from 1800 to 1980. We find that the answer to the question is yes. Estimated tipping points are similar at about 123⁄4 percent of GDP. For the contemporary dataset we find that a country just above the threshold will have GDP per capita 7.5 percent larger, after 10 years. The effect is tightly estimated and economically large.
Austerity
Austerity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Austerity write by Suzanne J. Konzelmann. This book was released on 2019-10-14. Austerity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Austerity has been at the center of political controversy following the 2008 financial crisis, invoked by politicians and academics across the political spectrum as the answer to, or cause of, our post-crash economic malaise. However, despite being the cause of debate for more than three centuries, austerity remains a poorly understood concept. In this book, Suzanne J. Konzelmann aims to demystify austerity as an economic policy, a political idea, and a social phenomenon. Beginning with an analysis of political and socioeconomic history from the seventeenth century, she explains the economics of austerity in the context of the overall dynamics of state spending, tax, and debt. Using comparative case studies from around the world, ranging from the 1930s to post-2008, she then evaluates the outcomes of austerity in light of its stated objectives and analyzes the conditions under which it doesn’t – and occasionally does – work. This accessible introduction to austerity will be essential reading for students and scholars of political economy, economics, and politics, as well as all readers interested in current affairs.
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy write by Walter Scheidel. This book was released on 2012-11-08. The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thanks to its exceptional size and duration, the Roman Empire offers one of the best opportunities to study economic development in the context of an agrarian world empire. This volume, which is organised thematically, provides a sophisticated introduction to and assessment of all aspects of its economic life.
