Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State
Subtitle: France and Great Britain 16881789 (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 28, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780521809672
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Political economy; Politics / Current Events; General; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Europe; Politics and government; Public Finance; Political Science / General; 1648-1789; Debts, Public; History
First sentence: My empirical focus on Britain and France is motivated by the fact that it has become popular to contrast the financial experiences of these two countries during the eighteenth century.