How states develop the capacity to tax is a question of fundamental importance to political science, legal theory, economics, sociology, and history. Increasingly, scholars believe that China's relative economic decline in the 18th and 19th centuries was related to its weak fiscal institutions and limited revenue. This book argues that this fiscal weakness was fundamentally ide...(展开全部)

How states develop the capacity to tax is a question of fundamental importance to political science, legal theory, economics, sociology, and history. Increasingly, scholars believe that China's relative economic decline in the 18th and 19th centuries was related to its weak fiscal institutions and limited revenue. This book argues that this fiscal weakness was fundamentally ide...(展开全部)

A comprehensive exploration of the world's financial markets and institutions. Introduction; Financial Institutions, Financial Intermediaries, and Asset Management Firms; Depository Institutions: Activities and Characteristics; The U.S. Federal Reserve and the Creation of Money; Monetary Policy in the United States; Insurance Companies; Investment Companies and Exchange-...(展开全部)

A comprehensive exploration of the world's financial markets and institutions. Introduction; Financial Institutions, Financial Intermediaries, and Asset Management Firms; Depository Institutions: Activities and Characteristics; The U.S. Federal Reserve and the Creation of Money; Monetary Policy in the United States; Insurance Companies; Investment Companies and Exchange-...(展开全部)

This comprehensive Handbook provides an insight into the main concepts and academic debates on taxation from a political science perspective. Providing a background to current debates on green taxation, taxation and inequality, taxation and gender, tax evasion and avoidance, and tax compliance, it offers potential avenues for future research. The Handbook explores the historica...(展开全部)

This work reopens the question of the relation of the Protestant Reformation to the emergence of a distinctively modern view of political activity. Providing a highly original reading of John Calvin’s major work and an examination of some key interpretations of Calvinism, Ralph C. Hancock argues that Calvin should be considered a founder of modern civilization along with such “...(展开全部)

This work reopens the question of the relation of the Protestant Reformation to the emergence of a distinctively modern view of political activity. Providing a highly original reading of John Calvin’s major work and an examination of some key interpretations of Calvinism, Ralph C. Hancock argues that Calvin should be considered a founder of modern civilization along with such “...(展开全部)

米歇尔·克罗齐耶(Michel CROZIER)，法国国家科学研究中心主任，法兰西科学院教授，组织社会学研究中心，巴黎政治研究院社会学高等教育部负责人， 曾在哈佛大学和法国楠泰尔大学执教多年。他主持过多次有关政府部门、企业以及其他机构的实际功能的社会学调查，围绕权力现象和组织现象开展过多方面的研究。其代表作有《科层现象》、《法令不能改变社会》、《被封闭的社会》等。

米歇尔·克罗齐耶(Michel CROZIER)，法国国家科学研究中心主任，法兰西科学院教授，组织社会学研究中心，巴黎政治研究院社会学高等教育部负责人， 曾在哈佛大学和法国楠泰尔大学执教多年。他主持过多次有关政府部门、企业以及其他机构的实际功能的社会学调查，围绕权力现象和组织现象开展过多方面的研究。其代表作有《科层现象》、《法令不能改变社会》、《被封闭的社会》等。

Nationally-specific definitions of citizenship proved decisive for the development of the Tax State in Brazil and South Africa in the twentieth century. Although both countries had been divided along racial and regional lines in the late nineteenth century, watershed constitutions addressed these political problems in very different ways. South Africa's institutionalized white ...(展开全部)