Paths toward the modern fiscal state : England, Japan, and China / Wenkai He.

Author/Creator:

He, Wenkai, 1969-

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.

Format/Description:

Book
x, 313 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subjects:

Finance, Public -- England -- History.
Finance, Public -- Japan -- History.
Finance, Public -- China -- History.
Fiscal policy -- England -- History.
Fiscal policy -- Japan -- History.
Fiscal policy -- China -- History.

Contents:

Credit crises in the rise of the modern fiscal state
England's path, 1642-1752
The rapid centralization of public finance in Japan, 1868-1880
The emergence of a modern fiscal state in Japan, 1880-1895
Economic disruption and the failure of paper money in China, 1851-1864
The persistence of fiscal decentralization in China, 1864-1911.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674072787 (alk. paper)
0674072782 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

806993655

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