Towards the comparative fiscal history of Britain and France during the ‘long’ eighteenth century

Bonney, Richard

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“…For example, Frankema and Booth (2020) study fiscal systems and use this concept to investigate variations in fiscal capacity across colonial states. Andersson and Lazuka (2019) and Bonney and Ormrod (1999) use the term 'fiscal system' in a similar manner. As our main interest is in understanding the core defining attributes of contemporary fiscal states, we abstain from discussing further these empirically more inclusive analytical concepts or the dominant fiscal systems of the premodern era.…”

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Conceptualizing the fiscal state: implications for sub-Saharan Africa

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2023

Journal of Institutional Economics

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This paper contributes to the debate on domestic revenue mobilization and state-building in the Global South by exploring the concept of fiscal states and the common assumption that such states are present in sub-Saharan Africa. We systematically review the diverse understandings of the fiscal state across relevant literatures to revisit its conceptualization. On that basis, we define the fiscal state as a state whose public revenue base is dominated by tax revenue and loans, and where the relationship between taxation and external and domestic borrowing is balanced and thereby sustainable and characterized by interdependence. We distinguish the fiscal state conceptually from the tax, debt, and rentier states and present a typology of these ideal state types, discussing illustrative empirical examples of different states in sub-Saharan Africa. These illustrate that not all sub-Saharan states can be categorized as fiscal states. This is important because when African states are regarded as fiscal states, assumptions are made about their economic structures; yet, to the extent that these are absent, fiscal policy reforms are unlikely to carry long-term positive effects.

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“…Other typologies map states according to their revenues. Bonney and Ormrod (1999), for example, have a helpful model of fiscal systems. However, our typology distinguishes itself in two ways.…”

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Conceptualizing the fiscal state: implications for sub-Saharan Africa

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2023

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“…Yet economic historians have bemoaned the chaotic state of eighteenth-century French finances, which collapsed into crisis and revolution. 85 In contrast, it has been declared that 'management of the government debt can be seen as one of the triumphs of eighteenth-century British institutions'. 86 Pointing to the collapse of the Royal Bank of France in 1720 as an example of what could go wrong, Price noted that it had made the French very cautious about the use of bank notes.…”

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War, public debt and Richard Price's Rational Dissenting radicalism

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The sources and nature of 'radicalism' in late eighteenth-century Britain have long been debated. At the same time, the impact of war on British politics, society and culture in this period has been underappreciated until recently. While war is recognized as having aided the spread of popular loyalism, its role in stimulating radicalism has been neglected. Based on study of the publications and letters of Richard Price (1723-91), this article highlights the influence of Anglo-French rivalry and war on the thought of a leading Rational Dissenter and champion of political reform.It was possible for J. G. A. Pocock to call Richard Price (1723-91) 'the first and original Left-Wing Intellectual' in British history because he provoked Edmund Burke to write his seminal conservative Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event (1790). 1 A leading 'Rational Dissenter' and Enlightenment intellectual in London, Price's Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty (1776) became one of the most widely read and debated pamphlets during the American Revolution. 2 The late eighteenth century saw the rise of modern popular politics in campaigns for parliamentary reform and abolition of the slave trade. Price embraced both causes. In 1780 he was a founding member of the Society for Constitutional Information, which sought to further the cause of parliamentary reform by disseminating pamphlets. Price was also a tireless advocate for religious liberty. A respected nonconformist clergyman, philosopher and mathematician, Price became one of the most famous and influential of late eighteenth-century British radicals. 3 The sources and nature of late eighteenth-century British radicalism have long been debated. A perceived change in parliamentary politics following the accession of George III in 1760 clearly played a role in causing a dramatic expansion of popular politics in the form of the 'Wilkes and Liberty' movement. 4 With the Jacobite threat receding into the past, and government positions opened to traditionally Tory families, nonconformist Dissenters became more willing to criticize the men and measures of the Hanoverian 1 J. G. A. Pocock, 'Radical criticisms of the whig order in the age between revolutions', in The Origins of

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The Seventy Years War, 1744–1815, and Britain’s Fiscal-Naval State

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Towards the comparative fiscal history of Britain and France during the ‘long’ eighteenth century

Cited by 3 publications

References 252 publications

Conceptualizing the fiscal state: implications for sub-Saharan Africa

Conceptualizing the fiscal state: implications for sub-Saharan Africa

War, public debt and Richard Price's Rational Dissenting radicalism

The Seventy Years War, 1744–1815, and Britain’s Fiscal-Naval State

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