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Informationen zum Autor Jose Luis Cardoso is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Science of the University of Lisbon. He was full professor of economics and history of economics at the Technical University of Lisbon! Portugal! and visiting professor at several Portuguese and foreign universities. He is coauthor of A History of Portuguese Economic Thought (1998) and author of several books on the Portuguese history of economics from a comparative perspective. He has published in History of Political Economy! European Journal of the History of Economic Thought! Journal of the History of Economic Thought! History of Economic Ideas! Journal of Socio-Economics! History of European Ideas! Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science! Financial History Review! and Economies et Societes. His research interests also include the economic history and methodology of economics. He is the general editor of the series Classics of Portuguese Economic Thought and co-founder and co-editor of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Pedro Lains is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He is editor of Analise Social! Secretary-General of the European Historical Economics Society! and member of the Instituto Laureano Figuerola at the Universidad Carlos III! Madrid. He was Director of Imprensa de Ciencias Sociais (2004-7) and President of the Portuguese Economic and Social History Association (2003-7). He has published in Analise Social! European Review of Economic History! Explorations in Economic History! Historical Research! Open Economies Review! Research in Economic History! Revista de Historia Economica! and Scandinavian Economic History Review. His most recent books are Historia Economica de Portugal! 1700-2000 (2005! with A. Ferreira da Silva); Classical Trade Protectionism! 1815-1914 (2006! with J.-P. Dormois); Em Nome da Europa! 1986-2006 (2007! with M. Costa Lobo); Historia da Caixa Geral de Depositos! 1910-1974 (vol. 2! 2008); Agriculture and Economic Development in Europe since 1870 (2008! with V. Pinilla); and Portugal sem Fronteiras: Os novos horizontes da economia portuguesa (2009). Klappentext This book is about the rise and development of taxation systems, expenditure programs, and debt regimes in Europe from the early nineteenth century to the beginning of World War I. Zusammenfassung This book is about the rise and development of taxation systems! expenditure programs! and debt regimes in Europe from the early nineteenth century to the beginning of World War I. Its main purpose is to describe and explain the process by which financial resources were raised and managed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction José Luís Cardoso and Pedro Lains; 1. Creating legitimacy: administering taxation in Britain, 1815-1914 Martin Daunton; 2. The development of public finance in the Netherlands, 1815-1914 Jan Luiten Van Zanden and Arthur Van Riel; 3. The apogee and fall of the French Rentier Regime, 1801-1914 Richard Bonney; 4. The evolution of public finances in nineteenth-century Germany Mark Spoerer; 5. Public finance in Austria-Hungary, 1820-1913 Michael Pammer; 6. The rise of the fiscal state in Sweden 1800-1914 Lennart Schön; 7. Always on the brink: Piedmont and Italy Giovanni Federico; 8. Public finance and the rise of the liberal state in Spain, 1808-1914 Francisco Comin; 9. Public finance in Portugal, 1796-1910 José Luís Cardoso and Pedro Lains; 10. The monetary, fiscal, and political architecture of Europe, 1815-1914 Larry Neal....
