Volume I. The advent of modern public borrowing -- Volume II. The Washington Consensus and its critics -- Volume III. The role of fiscal policy -- Volume IV. Market microstructure, creditor action and contagion.

This book offers a wholesale reinterpretation of both the introduction of excise taxation in Great Britain in the 1640s and the genesis of the Financial Revolution of the 1690s. By analysing hitherto unpublished manuscript and print sources, D'Maris Coffman resolves divergent accounts of these...