| Description |
734 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Budgetary cultures -- Budgets and social cultures -- Budgetary base as a manifestation of social order -- Finance without money: budgeting in the ancient world -- Centralized state, bureaucracy, and financial administration -- Direct and indirect revenues: taxes and corvee -- Fiscal management in the ancient world -- From republic to empire: taxing and spending in classical Athens and republican Imperial Rome -- Finance as technology -- Revenue -- Spending in republic and empire -- Treasuries and earmarking -- Coping : making ends meet versus evading punitive taxation -- Concept of public interest -- Finance in the private governments of Medieval Europe: poor kings -- Revenues and expenditures of medieval governments -- Pity the poor king: feudal financial institutions -- Revenue strategies of late-medieval governments -- Fiscal control: medieval administrative structure and the poverty of kings -- Medieval financial control : the audit -- Meaning of the middle ages: theories of change -- Poor people, rich kings: getting and spending in early-modern Europe -- Evolution and revolution, continuity and change -- Context -- Financing the government -- Revenues of nations: enlarging the base -- State governance for private profit: mixed administrative systems in the transitional era -- Ways and means of public government: taxing and spending in representative states of the early industrial age -- Changing paradigms of government finance -- Context for change -- Efficiency, rationality and the idea of the balanced budget -- Ways and means: taxes -- Taxation and welfare spending -- Balanced regimes, balanced budgets: why America was so different -- Internal improvements -- American mystery: budgeting with a budget -- End to the budgetary exceptionalism? the reemergence of hierarchy --Stability amidst turbulence: the half century after 1914 -- Taxing and spending in three western democracies during World War I -- Debt and immobility in the 1920's: study of France, Germany, Britain, Sweden and the United States -- Depression and the welfare state in Western Europe and the United States -- Military expenditures between the first and second world wars -- Growth of the welfare and tax states: from the 1960's until today -- Cultural theory of governmental growth and (un) balanced budgets |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 677-710 |
| Subject |
Expenditures, Public -- History.
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Taxation -- History.
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| Author |
Wildavsky, Aaron B.
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| LC no. |
86003863 |
| ISBN |
0671546171 |
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