Excise Taxation and the Origins of Public Debt (Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance)

by D'Maris Coffman (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2013

  $175.74

  This book offers a wholesale reinterpretation of both the introduction of excise taxation in Great Britain in the 1640s and the genesis of the Financial Revolution of the 1690s. A fresh reading of William Petty's Treatise on Taxes illustrates the development of an indigenous discourse in defence of the tax state.