Determinants of the Growth of the State: War and Taxation in Early Modern France and England

Standardizing the Fiscal State: Cabal Tax Farming as an Intermediate Institution in Early-Modern England and France

“…While O'Brien and Hunt (1999) associated the increase in tax revenues after 1689 with the move away from farming, they present no direct evidence for this connection. Kiser and Linton (2001), in contrast, notes that '[c]ommunications and transportation technology were not advanced enough until the late eighteenth century to make monitoring of mobile assets effective, even in a small country like England . .…”

“…A number of papers study the use of tax farming to overcome the costs of tax collection in the preindustrial world (see Bonney, 1979;Goldsmith, 1987;Kiser and Schneider, 1994;Kiser and Linton, 2001;Maurer and Gomberg, 2004;White, 2004;Allen, 2005Allen, , 2012Johnson, 2006a,b;Coşgel and Miceli, 2009;Balla and Johnson, 2009), and there is an extensive literature on how monarchs in early modern Europe struggled to secure access to credit (see North and Weingast, 1989;Root, 1989;Epstein, 2000;Drelichman and Voth, 2011a;Stasavage, 2011). However, this is the first paper to build a model that shows how these two processes were interconnected.…”

Different Paths to the Modern State in Europe: The Interaction Between Warfare, Economic Structure, and Political Regime

“…29 For example, Cheibub (1998), Lektzian (2008), Ross (2004), Timmons (2005), Thies (2005), and Thies (2007). 30 Dincecco (2009), Kiser and Linton (2001), Rasler and Thompson (1985;1999). (Taxrev). In its immediate interpretation, central tax revenues adjusted for population and incomes is a proxy for the fiscal capacity of the state.…”

The political economy of expulsion: the regulation of Jewish moneylending in medieval England

“…But charges of deicide, diabolism, and ritual murder had long poisoned Christian-Jewish relations (Cohen 1994). And, though a case can be made that it was precisely prior to, and during, the period of the expulsions that anti-Judaism became antisemitism as it imbibed 'irrational 71 As Ames and Rapp (1977); Tilly (1990); Kiser and Linton (2001) have argued it was war that drove both state formation and representative government, an idea that has been recently formalized by Besley and Persson (2009). 72 Previously both Veitch (1986) and Barzel (1992) have used similar rational choice explanations to account for the expulsion of the Jews.…”