Search Results for: Paths Toward The Modern Fiscal State

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 simil

(Cont.) As a problem that had to be solved, they forced experimentation, "selected" effective institutional arrangements and competent financial officials, and

Leading economic historians present a groundbreaking series of country case studies exploring the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia.

The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts

What would Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Truman, and Eisenhower have done about today's federal debt crisis? America's Fiscal Constit