Paying for the Liberal State. The Rise of Public Finances in Nineteenth Century Europe
Paying for the Liberal State. The Rise of Public Finances in Nineteenth Century Europe
In recent decades economics has returned its attention to the construction and maintenance of institutions required for sustained economic growth. Economists are beginning to appreciate that the absence, success and failure of institutions presupposes the promotion and support afforded by political and legal systems and that new institutional economics is at present bereft of a foundational theory for state formation. As economic historians this group of academics recognize that the reform and reconstruction of fiscal and financial systems at the end of the ancient regime and in the aftermath of nearly a quarter of a century of revolutionary and Napoleonic warfare (1792-1815) was crucial for the establishment of liberal regimes for the development of European economies between l815 and l914. Thus the main purposes of this exercise in collaborative economic history are: to outline the history of the reconstruction of fiscal and financial regimes after 25 years of upheaval and warfare; to analyse and generalize about the different national processes by which funds were obtained by states as they responded to the new and evolving tasks of government throughout the nineteenth century.o analyze the way European government.
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Keywords:
European Government, Public Finances, Taxation, European History
In recent decades economics has returned its attention to the construction and maintenance of institutions required for sustained economic growth. Economists are beginning to appreciate that the absence, success and failure of institutions presupposes the promotion and support afforded by political and legal systems and that new institutional economics is at present bereft of a foundational theory for state formation. As economic historians this group of academics recognize that the reform and reconstruction of fiscal and financial systems at the end of the ancient regime and in the aftermath of nearly a quarter of a century of revolutionary and Napoleonic warfare (1792-1815) was crucial for the establishment of liberal regimes for the development of European economies between l815 and l914. Thus the main purposes of this exercise in collaborative economic history are: to outline the history of the reconstruction of fiscal and financial regimes after 25 years of upheaval and warfare; to analyse and generalize about the different national processes by which funds were obtained by states as they responded to the new and evolving tasks of government throughout the nineteenth century.o analyze the way European government.
Objectivos:
Editing of a book to be published by Cambridge Universty Press (contract signed in December 2007) with contributions from 9 different countries. Writing of the chapter on Portugal to the same edited volume.
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