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Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State
England, Japan, and China
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English
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2013
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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 similar circumstances, did not. He’s explanation for China’s failure at a critical moment illuminates one of the most important but least understood transformations of the modern world.
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He Wenkai :
Wenkai He is Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
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Mark Metzler, University of Texas at Austin:
An outstanding work that takes on a classic subject in a new way. In its sweeping transnational synthesis, careful research, and perceptive analysis, Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State is a major achievement, the first of its kind in its field.
An outstanding work that takes on a classic subject in a new way. In its sweeping transnational synthesis, careful research, and perceptive analysis, Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State is a major achievement, the first of its kind in its field.
Daniel Little, University of Michigan–Dearborn:
A genuinely important piece of scholarship that has the potential to become a benchmark in the literature. The author combines new institutionalism, comparative historical sociology, and first-rate historical scholarship to make a novel and compelling explanation for the rise of the modern fiscal state. This book will be of particular interest today, given its relevance to the debt and credit crises that so many countries in the developed world are currently experiencing.
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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION
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1. CREDIT CRISES IN THE RISE OF THE MODERN FISCAL STATE
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2. ENGLAND’S PATH, 1642–1752
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3. THE RAPID CENTRALIZATION OF PUBLIC FINANCE IN JAPAN, 1868–1880
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4. THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN FISCAL STATE IN JAPAN, 1880–1895
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5. ECONOMIC DISRUPTION AND THE FAILURE OF PAPER MONEY IN CHINA, 1851–1864
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6. THE PERSISTENCE OF FISCAL DE CENTRALIZAION IN CHINA, 1864–1911
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CONCLUSION
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NOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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March 1, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9780674074637
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325
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1 line illustration, 7 graphs, 1 table
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9780674074637
Keywords for this book
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Comparative; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative
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Professional and scholarly;
