Of Rule and RevenueMargaret Levi's wide-ranging theoretical and historical study demonstrates the importance of political relative to economic factors in accounting for revenue production policies. |
Contents
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2 The Theory of Predatory Rule | 10 |
Excursus on the Acquisition of Rule | 41 |
3 Creating Compliance | 48 |
4 Revenue Production in Republican Rome | 71 |
5 France and England in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance | 95 |
6 Introduction of the Income Tax in EighteenthCentury Britain | 122 |
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