| Marketing Sovereign Promises: Monopoly Brokerage and the Growth of the English State Contributor(s): Cox, Gary W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1316506096 ISBN-13: 9781316506097 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $29.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Business & Economics | Public Finance - Political Science | Political Economy |
| Dewey: 336.340 |
| LCCN: 2015043647 |
| Series: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.04" W x 9.11" (0.71 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How did England, once a minor regional power, become a global hegemon between 1689 and 1815? Why, over the same period, did she become the world's first industrial nation? Gary W. Cox addresses these questions in Marketing Sovereign Promises. The book examines two central issues: the origins of the great taxing power of the modern state and how that power is made compatible with economic growth. Part I considers England's rise after the revolution of 1689, highlighting the establishment of annual budgets with shutdown reversions. This core reform effected a great increase in per capita tax extraction. Part II investigates the regional and global spread of British budgeting ideas. Cox argues that states grew only if they addressed a central credibility problem afflicting the Ancien R gime - that rulers were legally entitled to spend public revenue however they deemed fit. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cox, Gary W.: - Gary W. Cox is the William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, California. Cox has written numerous articles and is author of The Efficient Secret (winner of the 1983 Samuel H. Beer Dissertation Prize and the 2003 George H. Hallett Award), coauthor of Legislative Leviathan (winner of the 1993 Richard F. Fenno Prize), author of Making Votes Count (winner of the 1998 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, the 1998 Luebbert Prize, and the 2007 George H. Hallett Award), and coauthor of Setting the Agenda (winner of the 2006 Leon D. Epstein Book Award). Cox was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2005. |