Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: England, Japan, and China

Wenkai He shows why England and Japan, facing crises in public finance, developed the tools and institutions of a modern fiscal state, while China, facing similar circumstances, did not. He’s explanation for China’s failure at a critical moment illuminates one of the most important but least understood transformations of the modern world.

• | Author: Wenkai He
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: March 01, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674072782
• | ISBN-13: 9780674072787