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Political Economy in the Pseudo-Aristotelian Oeconomica II and the German Cameralist Klock

Schefold, Bertram - 2017

Montchrétien was definitely mercantilist. He praises the ancients, their honors and their self-discipline, but notes, like Serra, that there was no concept of Political Economy in Antiquity. The words, however, appear for the first time in the pseudoaristotelian Oeconomica II, where the...

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The Contractarian Constitutional Political Economy of James Buchanan

Congleton, Roger D. - 2014

This paper provides an overview of Buchanan's constitutional political economy, as it emerged over the course of fifty years. This was the field in which James Buchanan devoted the most effort and to which he made the largest contributions. Although the finely grained arguments that he developed...

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Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth

Azzimonti, Marina; Karpuska, Laura; Mihalache, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....

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Political institutions, state building, and tax capacity : crossing the tipping point

Gaspar, Vítor; Jaramillo, Laura; Wingender, Philippe - 2016

An empirical finding by Gaspar, Jaramillo and Wingender (2016) shows that once countries cross a tax-to-GDP threshold … this paper, we attempt via four case studies-Spain, China, Colombia, and Nigeria-to illustrate that the improvements in tax … capacity have been part of a deeper process of state capacity building. We discuss the political conditions that supported tax …

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Political institutions, state building, and tax capacity : crossing the tipping point

Gaspar, Vítor; Jaramillo, Laura; Wingender, Philippe - In: Fiscal politics, (pp. 241-269). 2017

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Political Institutions, State Building, and Tax Capacity : Crossing the Tipping Point

Gaspar, Vitor - 2017

An empirical finding by Gaspar, Jaramillo and Wingender (2016) shows that once countries cross a tax-to-GDP threshold … paper, we attempt via four case studies - Spain, China, Colombia, and Nigeria - to illustrate that the improvements in tax … capacity have been part of a deeper process of state capacity building. We discuss the political conditions that supported tax …

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