Abstract
Thus wrote Gijsbert Karel oan Hogendorp, architect of the 1813 Dutch constitution, in 1831.2 The preoious year had seen the separation of what is still Belgium from the Dutch United Kingdom and Hogendorp’s work seroed to ensure that the Dutch tax system remained footed on the fiscal principles that best suited the characteristics of the state. The significance of Hogendorp’s statement resides in that here one of the most influential figures in Dutch political history commented on the creation of the Economic Branch (Oeconomische Tak), the most famous Dutch economic society, in relation to the major eighteenth-century challenge to counter the economic decline of the Dutch Republic, which — by treating the issue in his 1831 work — he compared with the nineteenth-century predicament of the new Dutch state.
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