Abstract
A Review of Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States, edited by Andrew Monson and Walter Scheidel (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and Ancient Taxation: The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective, edited by Jonathan Valk and Irene Soto Marín (New York University Press, 2021)
Highlights
A Review of Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States, edited by Andrew Monson and Walter Scheidel (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and Ancient Taxation: The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective, edited by Jonathan Valk and Irene Soto Marín (New York University Press, 2021) Gary M
Benjamin Franklin’s oft-paraphrased statement regarding the ever presence of taxes is astute in its linkage of a political charter with revenue collection, as all forms of governance must be underpinned by fiscal financing of one kind or another
Once the question of “why ” is pondered, this review builds on that intellectual history to assess the contents of these two multidisciplinary collections and what their integrated findings imply for the comparative study of premodern states
Summary
A Review of Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States, edited by Andrew Monson and Walter Scheidel (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and Ancient Taxation: The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective, edited by Jonathan Valk and Irene Soto Marín (New York University Press, 2021) Gary M.
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