Routledge The History of Taxation

Product Description A set of eight volumes, these texts are designed to cover the literature of taxation from the late-17th century to the end of the 19th century. The writings focus on a number of themes, reflecting in turn the problems which revenue raisers have encountered over two centuries. Review 'Beyond the exceptional scholarly merits of this collection, the volumes are nicely produced and indexed - the latter often a rarity in collections of this type ... no one interested in the history of public finance or the economic role of government will want to be without access to them.' Journal of the History of Economic Thought About the Author D P O'Brien is at the University of Durham. He is Editor of the Pickering & Chatto editions Foundations of Monetary Economics (1994) and John Ramsay McCulloch's Classical Writings on Economics (1995). Recently, he edited a three volume edition on The Foundations of Business Cycle Theory for Edward Elgar Publishing.