The Political Economy of Public Finance in the 'long' Eighteenth Century
Author : Donald Winch
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,14 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Debts, Public
ISBN : 9781872343273
Author : Donald Winch
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,14 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Debts, Public
ISBN : 9781872343273
Author : Takuo Dome
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The 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 : Richard Bennett Vernier
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Debts, Public
ISBN :
Author : Colin Nicholson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 1994-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521453233
The 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
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801474187
'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
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 2003-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139439871
This 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 : Philip T. Hoffman
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2022
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781503619500
This 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 : Takuo Dome
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134316658
The 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 : Oscar Gelderblom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1317020774
In the first half of the seventeenth century the Dutch Republic emerged as one of Europe's leading maritime powers. The political and military leadership of this small country was based on large-scale borrowing from an increasingly wealthy middle class of merchants, manufacturers and regents This volume presents the first comprehensive account of the political economy of the Dutch republic from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Building on earlier scholarship and extensive new evidence it tackles two main issues: the effect of political revolution on property rights and public finance, and the ability of the nation to renegotiate issues of taxation and government borrowing in changing political circumstances. The essays in this volume chart the Republic's rise during the seventeenth century, and its subsequent decline as other European nations adopted the Dutch financial model and warfare bankrupted the state in the eighteenth century. By following the United Provinces's financial ability to respond to the changing national and international circumstances across a three-hundred year period, much can be learned not only about the Dutch experience, but the wider European implications as well.
Author : Robin James Ives
Publisher :
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Economics
ISBN :