Download or read book War Revenue and State Building written by Sheldon Pollack and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a relatively short time, the American state developed from a weak, highly decentralized confederation composed of thirteen former English colonies into the foremost global superpower. This remarkable institutional transformation would not have been possible without the revenue raised by a particularly efficient system of public finance, first crafted during the Civil War and then resurrected and perfected in the early twentieth century. That revenue financed America's participation in two global wars as well as the building of a modern system of social welfare programs. Sheldon D. Pollack shows how war, revenue, and institutional development are inextricably linked, no less in the United States than in Europe and in the developing states of the Third World. He delineates the mechanisms of political development and reveals to us the ways in which the United States, too, once was and still may be a "developing nation." Without revenue, states cannot maintain political institutions, undergo development, or exert sovereignty over their territory. Rulers and their functionaries wield the coercive powers of the state to extract that revenue from the population under their control. From this perspective, the state is seen as a highly efficient machine for extracting societal revenue that is used by the state to sustain itself. War, Revenue, and State Building traces the sources of public revenue available to the American state at specific junctures of its history (in particular, during times of war), the revenue strategies pursued by its political leaders in response to these factors, and the consequential impact of those strategies on the development of the American state.

Download or read book Financing Confederation Revisited The Economic State of the Federation written by Boadway and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Financing Confederation written by Economic Council of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Public Finance and Financial Services 1700 1815 written by Edwin J. Perkins and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edwin Perkins's examination of the development of financial services in North America is the first study to focus on the colonial, confederation, and early national eras, highlighting both the continuities of the colonial past and the sweeping institutional innovations after American independence." "Perkins analyzes virtually every major financial service - the issuance of paper monies, the rise of capital markets to support the trading of stocks and bonds, the emergence of insurance underwriters to cover fire damage on domestic structures and marine losses, and other related activities. He also examines the major political controversies surrounding the American financial system, including the contest between Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians. Perkins argues that the financial services sector was quite sophisticated well before the revolutionary advances in transportation and industry that occurred between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Moreover, he contends that the maturation of the financial services sector came early, laying a solid base for advancement in other economic sectors after 1815." "An essential work for business and economic historians, as well as specialists in the colonial and early national eras, American Public Finance and Financial Services will enlighten all those interested in better understanding the development of the American economy."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book Democratizing Finance written by Clifford N. Rosenthal and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades before Occupy Wall Street challenged the American financial system, activists began organizing alternatives to provide capital to “unbankable” communities and the poor. With roots in the civil rights, anti-poverty, and other progressive movements, they brought little training in finance. They formed nonprofit loan funds, credit unions, and even a new bank—organizations that by 1992 became known as “community development financial institutions,” or CDFIs. By melding their vision with that of President Clinton, CDFIs grew from church basements and kitchen tables to number more than 1,000 institutions with billions of dollars of capital. They have helped transform community development by providing credit and financial services across the United States, from inner cities to Native American reservations. Democratizing Finance traces the roots of community development finance over two centuries, a history that runs from Benjamin Franklin, through an ill-starred bank for African American veterans of the Civil War, the birth of the credit union movement, and the War on Poverty. Drawn from hundreds of interviews with CDFI leaders, presidential archives, and congressional testimony, Democratizing Finance provides an insider view of an extraordinary public policy success. Democratizing Finance is a unique resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and social investors.

Download or read book Financing the Central American Federation 1821 1838 written by Robert Sidney Smith and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Finances of the United States from 1775 to 1789 written by Charles Jesse Bullock and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brief appearance of a ghost late at night begins a series of comic misunderstandings during which the narrator's mother throws a shoe through a neighbor's window and his grandfather shoots a policeman.

Download or read book Report on the Activities of the Confederation 1960 1962 and Financial Reports written by International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. World Congress and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Financing Confederation Today and Tomorrow Economic Council of Canada written by Economic Council of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Bulletin of the National Federation of Remedial Loan Associations written by National Federation of Remedial Loan Associations and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Public Finance written by Charles Francis Bastable and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Power of the Purse written by E. James Ferguson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Power of the Purse, E. James Ferguson examines the intricate financial history of the American Revolution and the Confederation and connects it to political and constitutional developments in the period. Whether states or Congress should pay the debts of the Revolution and collect the taxes was a pivotal question whose solution would largely determine the country's progress toward national union. Ultimately, says Ferguson, the Revolutionary debt fulfilled an important purpose as a "bond of union." Ferguson's masterful analysis, originally published in 1961, has become a classic among the literature on the American Revolution.

Download or read book Proceedings of the National Federation of Remedial Loan Associations written by National Federation of Remedial Loan Associations and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Early Financial History of the United States written by Davis Rich Dewey and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interplay of political/economic environment and monetary affairs in the early history of the United States

Download or read book Financial History of the United States written by Davis Rich Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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