Tax farming and the origins of state capacity in England and France

2013/07/31 by Noel D. Johnson, Mark Koyama · 110 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Agriculture #American Constitutional Law and Politics #Business #Economic policy #Economics #Finance #Geography #Historical Economic and Legal Thought #Historical Economic and Social Studies #Indirect tax #Institution #Law #Market economy #Political science #Public economics #Revenue #Standardization #State (computer science) #Tax reform #Tax revenue

paper · doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2013.07.005

published in Explorations in Economic History 51, 1-20 (Elsevier BV)

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Citations

• Banking on the King: The Evolution of the Royal Revenue Farms in Old Regime France
• Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England
• English Government Borrowing, 1660-1688
• From Privatized to Government-administered Tax Collection: Tax Farming in Eighteenth-century France

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