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The Efficacy of Spain’s Fiscal-Military State

In: Constructing a Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Spain

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  • Rafael Torres Sánchez

    (Universidad de Navarra)

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From the second half of the seventeenth century many changes were brought in and many feats pulled off in the long process of reforming the Spanish state. The most notable were the establishment of its unchallengeable authority and entitlement to control resources, and the modification of the taxation and expenditure policy (something the Habsburgs had never managed to do). The question now is whether these changes spelled efficacy, that is, whether the fiscal-military state was efficient in its priority and almost sole objective of mobilising the necessary wherewithal for ensuring security and stability: the two assets of most interest to any society. Assessing the efficiency of resource mobilisation is tricky. It is very difficult to measure and even more complicated to make any comparisons with other states, but this is essential if we are to going to have any hope of refuting the hackneyed theories that have always placed more emphasis on coercion than efficiency.

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  • Rafael Torres Sánchez, 2015. "The Efficacy of Spain’s Fiscal-Military State," Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance, in: Constructing a Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Spain, chapter 6, pages 189-212, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:psitcp:978-1-137-47866-5_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137478665_6
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