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Democracy and money : lessons for today from Athens in classical times

Mpētros, Geōrgios K.; Economou, Emmanouil Marios L.; … - 2021

governance with privately produced money based on the case of Athens in Classical times, and explains why, if it is conceived as ….S. today, Athens at that time reached the apex of its military, economic, political, cultural, and scientific influence in the … world. But Athens triumphed through different approaches to democracy and fundamentally different fiscal and monetary …

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A Hercules in the cradle : war, money, and the American state, 1783 - 1867

Edling, Max M. - 2014

Introduction: war, money, and American history -- A more effectual mode of administration: the constitution and the origins of American public finance -- The soul of government: creating an American fiscal regime -- So immense a power in the affairs of war: the restoration of public credit --...

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A monetary and fiscal history of the United States, 1961-2021

Blinder, Alan S. - 2022

In this book, Alan Blinder, one of the world’s most influential economists and one of the field’s best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States. Spanning twelve presidents, from John...

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The political economy of public finance : taxation, state spending and debt since the 1970s

Buggeln, Marc (ed.); Daunton, Martin J. (ed.); … - Leviathan After the Boom: Public Finance in the … - 2017

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The political economy of public finance : taxation, state spending and debt since the 1970s

Nützenadel, Alexander (ed.); Buggeln, Marc (ed.); … - 2017

This volume examines the major trends in public finance in developed capitalist countries since the oil crisis of 1973. That year's oil shock quickly became an economic crisis, putting an end to a period of very high growth rates and an era of easy finance. Tax protests and growing welfare costs...