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Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy

Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy

Bin Wong, R.
Tanimoto, Masayuki

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General World History

ISBN10: 1013292340
ISBN13: 9781013292347
Publisher: Saint Philip Street Pr
Published: Oct 9 2020
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.77
Height: 0.72 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Historically, for sustaining and reproducing their economic lives, people have obtained goods and services through various ways. How did people tackle issues that the market did not handle well? This volume compares early modern efforts to provide public goods-defined in contraposition to market-mediated goods and goods provided through personal relations, such as kinship ties. We examine poverty and famine relief, infrastructure building, and forestry management in East Asia and Europe, using Japan's Tokugawa era (1603-1868) as a benchmark from which consider the cases in Prussia, China, and England. Taking advantage of rich scholarship on the role of autonomous village and regional society in Japan's early modern history, the volume highlights the diverse approaches to providing public goods across societies, relativizing the discussion on the formation of fiscal state drawn from the experience in advanced Western Europe, and it constructs the beginnings of an early modern basis for forecasting the diversity in public-goods provision future into the modern and contemporary periods.

This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

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