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Questioning Credible Commitment: Court capitalism, illicit markets, and political legitimacy in eighteenth-century France: The salt and tobacco monopolies
Michael Kwass
- pp 228-250
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The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 2 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Legitimacy & Capitalism.read more
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Economic Interdependencies and Political Conflict: The Political Economy of Taxation in Eighteenth Century Britain
Ivano Cardinale,D’Maris Coffman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of public funding of academic research on external funding obtained via research contracts, consultancies and "research to order" activities more generally are investigated. But the results of their analysis show that the availability of external funding has a positive impact on the probability of accessing further external funding and on its amount.
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Bounded Leviathan: or why North and Weingast are only right on the right half
Alejandra Irigoin,Regina Grafe +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that North and Weingast's model's one-sided focus on state coercion that threatened subjects' property rights has obscured the relation between coercion used in revenue collection and total revenue role of fiscal capacity.
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Jürgen Habermas,Thomas Burgerm +1 more
TL;DR: A preliminary demarcation of a type of Bourgeois public sphere can be found in this article, where the authors remark on the type representative publicness on the genesis of the Bourgois Public Sphere.
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Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the evolution of the constitutional arrangements in seventeenth-century England following the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and argue that the new institutions allowed the government to commit credibly to upholding property rights.
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The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783
TL;DR: This paper examined the causes of the emergence in England of this fiscal-military state and the features which distinguished it from European powers. But they did not consider the effect of these developments on society at large: their impact on the economy, on social structure and politics and their role in developing special interest groups and lobbies.
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Consumption and the world of goods
John D. Brewer,Roy Porter +1 more
TL;DR: The Consumption of Culture: Books and Newspapers as mentioned in this paper is a collection of books and newspapers about the consumption of culture, objects, and images, with a focus on the meaning of possession.