| The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming: Business Elites and the Emergence of the Modern State in Southeast Asia 1993 Edition Contributor(s): Dick, Howard (Author), Loparo, Kenneth A. (Author), Butcher, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349228796 ISBN-13: 9781349228799 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Taxation - General - Business & Economics | Economic History - Business & Economics | Economics - Microeconomics |
| Dewey: 336.200 |
| Series: Studies in the Economies of East and South-East Asia |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.01 lbs) 309 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Until the early 1900s governments of Southeast Asia farmed out the right to run opium, gambling and other monopolies. Yet by about 1920 all of the major farms had been abolished and the collection of revenue brought under direct bureaucratic control. This book explains the rise and sudden fall of revenue farming, traces the changing fortunes of the Chinese businessmen who held the major farms, and uses the study of revenue farming to examine the emergence of the modern state in Southeast Asia. |