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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778429403321

Autore

Levi Margaret

Titolo

Of rule and revenue / / Margaret Levi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1988

ISBN

1-282-35556-2

9786612355561

0-520-90954-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 pages)

Collana

California series on social choice and political economy ; ; 9

Disciplina

336.02

Soggetti

Revenue - History

Income tax - History

State, The - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Theory of Predatory Rule -- 3. Creating Compliance -- 4. Revenue Production in Republican Rome -- 5. France and England in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- 6. Introduction of the Income Tax in Eighteenth- Century Britain -- 7. Compliance with the Commonwealth Income Tax in Australia -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix: Bringing People Back into the State. A Bibliographical Essay -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Margaret Levi's wide-ranging theoretical and historical study demonstrates the importance of political relative to economic factors in accounting for revenue production policies.