Marketing sovereign promises monopoly brokerage and the growth of the English state

"How did England, once a minor regional power, become a global hegemon between 1689 and 1815? Why, over the same period, did she become the world's first industrial nation? Gary W. Cox addresses these questions in Marketing Sovereign Promises. The book examines two central issues: the orig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Cox, Gary W., autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press 2016.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Political economy of institutions and decisions.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sovereign credibility and public revenue
  • Part I. The Glorious Revolution and the English State
  • The market for taxes and platforms
  • More credible platforms, more taxes
  • Pricing sovereign debts
  • Establishing monopoly brokerage of sovereign debts
  • The consequences of monopoly brokerage of debt
  • Property rights
  • From constitutional commitment to Industrial Revolution
  • Summarizing the Revolution
  • Part II. The English Constitutional Diaspora
  • Exporting the Revolution : the early adopters
  • Exporting the Revolution : the late adopters
  • Good political institutions.