Masayuki (Hrsg.) Tanimoto

Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy

Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe

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With new global evidence that goes well beyond the timeworn topics of taxation and military spending, Public Goods Provision will make historians and social scientists rethink the development of fiscal systems, the history of public spending, and the long run pattern of political and economic development.—Philip T. Hoffman, author of Why Did Europe Conquer the World?“This pioneering volume is a comparative study of the role of government in the premodern economy in Europe and in Asia. There is much original and valuable material on whether and how governments provided public goods in these very different societies.”—Gregory Clark, author of T… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Wong, R. Bin (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-520-30365-2
EAN: 9780520303652
Produktnummer: 29031379
Verlag: University of California Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 348 S.
Masse: H15.3 cm x B22.7 cm x D2.4 cm 532 g
Abbildungen: 11 line illustrations, 10 tables, 5 maps
Gewicht: 532
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Masayuki Tanimoto is Professor of Economic History at the University of Tokyo and editor of The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization: Another Path to Industrialization.R. Bin Wong is Distinguished Professor of History at University of California, Los Angeles, and coauthor of Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe.