Standardizing the fiscal state: cabal tax farming as an Intermediate Institution in early-modern England and France
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Keywords
State Capacity; Standardization; Tax Farming; France; England; Transaction Costs;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N23 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
- K00 - Law and Economics - - General - - - General (including Data Sources and Description)
- D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
- N44 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - Europe: 1913-
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ACC-2012-08-23 (Accounting and Auditing)
- NEP-HIS-2012-08-23 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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