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The Public Good and the Brazilian State - Municipal Finance and Public Services in Sao Paulo, 1822-1930 (Hardcover)
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The Public Good and the Brazilian State - Municipal Finance and Public Services in Sao Paulo, 1822-1930 (Hardcover)
Series: Markets and Governments in Economic History
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Who and what a government taxes, and how the government spends the
money collected, are questions of primary concern to governments
large and small, national and local. When public revenues pay for
high-quality infrastructure and social services, citizens thrive
and crises are averted. When public revenues are inadequate to
provide those goods, inequality thrives and communities can verge
into unrest—as evidenced by the riots during Greece’s financial
meltdown and by the needless loss of life in Haiti’s collapse in
the wake of the earthquake. In The Public Good and the Brazilian
State, Anne G. Hanley assembles an economic history of public
revenues as they developed in nineteenth-century Brazil.
Specifically, Hanley investigates the financial life of the
municipality—a district comparable to the county in the United
States—to understand how the local state organized and
prioritized the provision of public services, what revenues paid
for those services, and what happened when the revenues collected
failed to satisfy local needs. Through detailed analyses of
municipal ordinances, mayoral reports, citizen complaints, and
financial documents, Hanley sheds light on the evolution of public
finance and its effect on the early economic development of
Brazilian society. This deeply researched book offers valuable
insights for anyone seeking to better understand how municipal
finance informs histories of inequality and underdevelopment.
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