The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics
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- Timothy Besley & Torsten Persson, 2009. "The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 99(4), pages 1218-1244, September.
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Keywords
State capacity; Development; Property rights;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
- E60 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - General
- H10 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - General
- K40 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - General
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2007-07-07 (Development)
- NEP-LAW-2007-07-07 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2007-07-07 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2007-07-07 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-REG-2007-07-07 (Regulation)
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