.This important new volume provides an economic history for the period 1815-1939 of state/business relations in the major powers …: France, Germany, Japan, Russia, UK and the USA. The book challenges the traditional story that the scale of state …

in Ireland illuminates a neglected aspect of Irish history, and will be of interest to scholars, policymakers, and …This book examines the politics of taxation in Ireland between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. Combining … political, economic, and policy history, it contributes to a growing interdisciplinary literature on public finance, while also …