Fiscal Regimes And The Political Economy Of Premodern States - 9781107089204

This book represents the first global survey of taxation in the premodern world. What emerges is a rich variety of institutions, including experiments with sophisticated instruments such as sovereign debt and fiduciary money, challenging the notion of atypical premodern stage of fiscal development--

• | Author: Andrew Monson, Walter Scheidel
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 23, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 604 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1107089204
• | ISBN-13: 9781107089204