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The Lion's Share - Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe (Hardcover)
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The Lion's Share - Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
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This is the most in-depth analysis of inequality and social
polarization ever attempted for a preindustrial society. Using data
from the archives of the Venetian Terraferma, and compared with
information available for elsewhere in Europe, Guido Alfani and
Matteo Di Tullio demonstrate that the rise of the fiscal-military
state served to increase economic inequality in the early modern
period. Preindustrial fiscal systems tended to be regressive in
nature, and increased post-tax inequality compared to pre-tax - in
contrast to what we would assume is the case in contemporary
societies. This led to greater and greater disparities in wealth,
which were made worse still as taxes were collected almost entirely
to fund war and defence rather than social welfare. Though focused
on Old Regime Europe, Alfani and Di Tullio's findings speak to
contemporary debates about the roots of inequality and social
stratification.
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