The political economy of public finance : taxation, state spending and debt since the 1970s
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The political economy of public finance : taxation, state spending and debt since the 1970s
Cambridge University Press, 2018
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume examines the major trends in public finance in developed capitalist countries since the oil crisis of 1973. That year's oil shock quickly became an economic crisis, putting an end to a period of very high growth rates and an era of easy finance. Tax protests and growing welfare costs often led to rising debt levels. The change to floating exchange rates put more power in the hand of markets, which corresponded with a growing influence of neo-liberal thinking. These developments placed state finances under considerable pressure, and leading scholars here examine how the wealthiest OECD countries responded to these challenges and the consequences for the distribution of wealth between the rich and the poor. As the case studies here make clear, there was no simple 'race to the bottom' in taxation and welfare spending: different countries opted for different solutions that reflected their political and economic structures.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: the political economy of public finance since the 1970s: questioning the Leviathan Marc Buggeln, Martin Daunton and Alexander Nutzenadel
- 2. Creating a dynamic society: the tax reforms of the Thatcher government Martin Daunton
- 3. Fiscal policy in Japan and the United States since 1973: economic crises, taxation and weak tax consent Elliot Brownlee and Eisaku Ide
- 4. Swiss worlds of taxation: the political economy of fiscal federalism and tax competition Gisela Hurlimann
- 5. Taxation in the 1980s: a five-country comparison of neo-liberalism and path dependency Marc Buggeln
- 6. The Swiss tax haven, the Bretton Woods system crisis and the globalisation of offshore finance Christophe Farquet
- 7. Postwar fiscal traps Peter H. Lindert
- 8. Fiscal redistribution in comparative perspective: recent evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data centre David Jesuit and Vincent Mahler
- 9. The state, public finance and the changing response to investing in the future: the case of the United Kingdom since the 1970s Martin Chick
- 10. From 'brink of the abyss' to 'miracle': public spending in Denmark and the Netherlands since 1980 Reimut Zohlnhoefer
- 11. The politics of public debt techniques: (re)inventing the market for French sovereign bonds and shaping the public debt problem, 1966-2012 Benjamin Lemoine
- 12. Structural fiscal imbalances, financial repression and sovereign debt sustainability in Southern Europe, 1970s-90s Stefano Battilossi
- Index.
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