Paying for the Liberal State

ISBN-13: 9780521518529 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 310 str.

Jose Luis Cardoso

Opis

Public finance is a major feature of the development of modern European societies, and it is at the heart of the definition of the nature of political regimes. Public finance is also a most relevant issue in the understanding of the constraints and possibilities of economic development. This book is about the rise and development of taxation systems, expenditure programs, and debt regimes in Europe from the early nineteenth century to the beginning of World War I. Its main purpose is to describe and explain the process by which financial resources were raised and managed. The volume presents studies of nine countries or empires that are considered highly representative of the widest European experience on the matter and discusses whether there are any common patterns in the way the different European states responded to the need for raising additional resources to pay for the new tasks they were performing.

Recenzje

'A team of outstanding scholars shows how the success of the nineteenth-century European liberal state was to a considerable extent predicated on the efficiency and fairness of taxation and public expenditure. Lessons for the present abound.' Gianni Toniolo, Duke University

Spis treści

Introduction José Luís Cardoso and Pedro Lains; 1. Creating legitimacy: administering taxation in Britain, 1815–1914 Martin Daunton; 2. The development of public finance in the Netherlands, 1815–1914 Jan Luiten Van Zanden and Arthur Van Riel; 3. The apogee and fall of the French Rentier Regime, 1801–1914 Richard Bonney; 4. The evolution of public finances in nineteenth-century Germany Mark Spoerer; 5. Public finance in Austria-Hungary, 1820–1913 Michael Pammer; 6. The rise of the fiscal state in Sweden 1800–1914 Lennart Schön; 7. Always on the brink: Piedmont and Italy Giovanni Federico; 8. Public finance and the rise of the liberal state in Spain, 1808–1914 Francisco Comin; 9. Public finance in Portugal, 1796–1910 José Luís Cardoso and Pedro Lains; 10. The monetary, fiscal, and political architecture of Europe, 1815–1914 Larry Neal.