State Cash Resources and State Building in Europe 13th-18th century
In July 2012 historians and economists met in Paris for a conference entitled State Cash Resources and State Building in Europe: taxation and public debt, 13th-18th centuries. This volume is one of the products of that meeting. By making these essays available in both French and English translations, the editors hope to ensure a wide audience for an important set of contributions on questions relating to the development and management of public finance and its connection with the growth and po...
Éditeur : Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique, Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France
Lieu d’édition : Paris
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 4 mai 2017
ISBN numérique : 978-2-8218-5565-6
DOI : 10.4000/books.igpde.3806
Collection : Histoire économique et financière - Ancien Régime
Année d’édition : 2017
Katia Béguin et Jean-Philippe Genet
Taxation and the Rise of the State: Introductory RemarksTax or Borrow or Borrow and Tax?
Denis Menjot et Fausto Piola Caselli
IntroductionJosé Damián González Arce
Monetary, Fiscal and Financial Reform of the Castilian State (Thirteenth–Seventeenth Century)Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez
The Real Thing: the Pedidos of Portugal and the Demands for Extraordinary Revenues in the Later Middle AgesPeter Rauscher
Tax Systems, Debts and Loans: the Case of the Habsburg Monarchy (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)Political Construction and the Management of Public Resources
Christine Lebeau
IntroductionAdrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks et Tony K. Moore
Credit Finance in the Middle Ages: Loans to the English Crown 1272–1345Luciano Pezzolo
No Debt without Taxation. Fiscal Policy, Institutions and Politics in Italy 1350–1700Markets for Public Debt Securities
Laurent Feller et Dominique Margairaz
IntroductionJeffrey Miner
The Social Logic of Genoese Public Debt Before the Casa di San Giorgio (Thirteenth–Fifteenth Century)David Chilosi
Revisiting Notes on the History of the Interest Rate: Bond Markets in the Republic of GenoaAnne L. Murphy
Compromised Credibility: the Problems of Trading Debt at the Eighteenth-Century Bank of EnglandPierre-Cyrille Hautcœur
ConclusionIn July 2012 historians and economists met in Paris for a conference entitled State Cash Resources and State Building in Europe: taxation and public debt, 13th-18th centuries. This volume is one of the products of that meeting. By making these essays available in both French and English translations, the editors hope to ensure a wide audience for an important set of contributions on questions relating to the development and management of public finance and its connection with the growth and power of the early modern state.
Contributors were asked to consider three major themes in their essays: first, the choices that faced states seeking to raise funds and, in particular, questions of how to balance taxation and borrowing. Second, contributors were asked to explore the connections between political regime and finance. This included the much-explored question of whether particular regimes were more effective at raising funds and were viewed as more reliable borrowers but the essays also ask how the rights of creditors were enforced and how creditors monitored those to whom they lent money. The final theme concerned the primary and secondary markets in state debt and here the contributors focused on questions of liquidity, transparency and the skills of those who traded and manipulated the instruments of the state’s debt.
The resulting essays offer a comparative perspective over six centuries of European history. Taken together they provide a rich new resource and challenge both the neat dichotomies that have been drawn between absolutist and constitutional states and entrenched ideas about how practice evolved and knowledge and skills were shared and transferred between actors and states.
Director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (Modern History), her research relate to the transformations initiated by the growth of the public debt in modern France. Her ongoing work relates to the markets of the public debt and their internationalization in the 18th century, the circulation of securities in the society and the decisions of authorities in the long-term management of the debt. She has recently published: “Le droit fiscal d’Ancien Régime. Les dynamiques de la fiscalité, du privilège and de la dette”, Grief. Revue sur les mondes du droit, Dalloz-EHESS, n° 1, 2014, p. 173-183; (with P.-C. Pradier), “Bâtir l’éternité avec des rentes perpétuelles? L’efficace des fidéicommis pour les titres de dette publique”, Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée modernes et contemporaines, 124-2, 2012, p. 421-432; Financer la guerre au XVIIe siècle. La dette publique et les rentiers de l’absolutisme, Seyssel, Champ Vallon, 2012; “Estimer la valeur de marché des rentes d’État sous l’Ancien Régime. Une contribution aux méthodes de l’histoire sociale”, Histoire & Mesure, XXVI-2, 2011, p. 3-30.
Anne L. Murphy is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research focuses on 18th-century British financial markets and institutions. She is particularly interested in the role of the Bank of England as intermediary between the state and its creditors. She has recently published: “Demanding credible commitment: public reactions to the failures of the early financial revolution”, Economic History Review, 66, 2013, p. 178-197; The Origins of the English Financial Markets, Cambridge University Press, 2009 (paperback, 2012); “Learning the business of banking: the recruitment and training of the Bank of England’s first tellers”, Business History, 52, 2010, p. 150-168; “Trading options before Black-Scholes: a study of the market in late 17th-century London”, Economic History Review, 62, 2009, p. 8-30.
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