This book discusses the changing role of government finance in the twentieth century. It
documents the enormous increase in government spending throughout the 1900s across all …

Public spending enables governments to produce and purchase goods and services, in
order to fulfil their objectives–such as the provision of public goods or the redistribution of …

How did today's rich states first establish modern fiscal systems? To answer this question,
Political Transformations and Public Finances by Mark Dincecco examines the evolution of …

This new edition restructures and updates the political economy view of the responsibilities
and limitations of government. Public-choice and behavioural concepts are prominent …

Worldwide experience highlights public finance policies that promote economic growth
while meeting the need for fundamental public goods. Macroeconomic stability is essential …

Governments have a crucial role to play in accelerating–or obstructing–economic
development, and one of the main tools through which this role is exercised is public …

In most OECD countries, public spending rose steadily as a share of GDP over the past
decades to the mid-1990s, but this trend has since abated. The spending pressures …

Using data from approximately ninety countries, the author shows that the more a state taxes
the rich as a percentage of GDP, the more it protects property rights; and the more it taxes …

This is the first book to compare the history of tax compliance in several countries (Sweden,
Britain, Italy, Romania, and the United States). The book clearly elaborates the policy …

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DAVID OSBORNE & PETER HUTCHINSON A Common Sense Approach To: • Squeezing …