Leading economic historians present a groundbreaking series of country case studies exploring the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia.

In this volume an international team of scholars builds up a comprehensive analysis of the fiscal history of Europe over six centuries. It forms a fundamental s

Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the US system of direct and progressive taxation.

Wenkai He shows why England and Japan, facing crises in public finance, developed the tools and institutions of a modern fiscal state, while China, facing simil

A groundbreaking history of why governments do—and don't—tax the rich In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not gr