The Political Economy of Public Finance in the 'long' Eighteenth Century
Author: Donald Winch
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781872343273
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Author: Donald Winch
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781872343273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Bennett Vernier
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Takuo Dome
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe period between 1767 and 1873 shaped public finance in Britain as we know it today, with the major economists of the time providing influential contributions. This book analyses the impact of Steuart, Smith, Malthus, Ricard, Mill and others.
Author: Colin Nicholson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-07-14
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521453233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe early eighteenth century saw a far-reaching financial revolution in England, whose impact on the literature of the period has hitherto been relatively unexplored. In this original study, Colin Nicholson reads familiar texts such as Gulliver's Travels, The Beggar's Opera and The Dunciad as 'capital satires', responding to the social and political effects of the installation of capitalist financial institutions in London. The founding of the Bank of England and the inauguration of the National Debt permanently altered the political economy of England: the South Sea Bubble disaster of 1721 educated a political generation into the money markets. While they invested in stocks and shares, Swift, Pope and Gay conducted a campaign against the civic effects of these new financial institutions. Conflict between these writers' inherited discourse of civic humanism and the transformations being undergone by their own society, is shown to have had a profound effect on a number of key literary texts.
Author: John Shovlin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780801474187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The Political Economy of Virtue' offers an interpretation of political economy in the second half of the 18th century. It covers the key turning points in the development of French political economy.
Author: David Stasavage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-04-28
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1139439871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book develops new theory about the link between debt and democracy and applies it to a classic historical comparison: Great Britain in the eighteenth century which had strong representative institutions and sound public finance vs. ancient regime France, which had neither. The book argues that whether representative institutions improve commitment depends on the opportunities for government creditors to form new coalitions with other social groups, more likely to occur when a society is divided across multiple political cleavages. It then presents historical evidence to show that improved access to finance in Great Britain after 1688 had as much to do with the development of the Whig Party as with constitutional changes. In France, it is suggested that the balance of partisan forces made it unlikely that an early adoption of 'English-style' institutions would have improved credibility.
Author: Takuo Dome
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-03-25
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1134316658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe period between 1767 and 1873 shaped public finance in Britain as we know it today, with the major economists of the time providing influential contributions. This book analyses the impact of Steuart, Smith, Malthus, Ricard, Mill and others.
Author: Philip T. Hoffman
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Published: 2022
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781503619500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, one of the books in the "Making of Modern Freedom" series, is a collection of essays by eminent historians who explore the relationship between state finance and political development in fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe. They analyze how during this period European states were engaged in nearly continuous warfare and how those warfares produced fiscal crises. As a result, rulers were forced to enter into novel fiscal agreements with their subjects, often providing their subjects more political power, in exchange. The volume begins with two essays on England. David Harris Sacks traces the politics of government finance from the fifteenth century to the eve of the Civil War, and J. R. Jones carries the story forward into the eighteenth century, when representative government was jeopardized by new and powerful financial interests. The third essay, by Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr., explains why the Netherlands' exceptional ability to raise money by taxes and loans allowed them to wage war without the severe financial difficultes experiencd by other European powers. Two essays on Spain by I. A. A. Thompson follow the changing fortunes of the Cortes of Castile, relating its role to the desperate manipulation of Spanish fiscal policy as it came into conflict with the dearly held liberties of Castilian citizens. The two final essays deal with the consequences of absolutism in France. Philip T. Hoffman details the fiscal effect of noble privileges and explores the political ramifications of the country's repeated financial crises, and Kathryn Norberg explains why the fiscal crisis of 1789 finally brought down the monarchy.
Author: Robin James Ives
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 650
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barry R. Weingast
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008-06-19
Total Pages: 1112
ISBN-13: 0199548471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver its lifetime, 'political economy' has had different meanings. This handbook views political economy as a synthesis of the various strands of social science, treating it as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions.