The War Within : Private Interests and the Fiscal State in Early-Modern Europe / edited by Joël Félix, Anne Dubet

• HerausgeberIn: Félix, Joël 1960-; Dubet, Anne, 1969-
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
• Physical Description: viii, 302 Seiten; Diagramme

The international financial crisis of 2007-08 and the ensuing scandals continue to raise important debates about the role of institutions in maintaining trust and fighting corruption, as well as in sustaining economic growth and political stability in a globalized world. This book proposes to histor...

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Anne Dubet and Joël Félix
• Chapter 2. Credit and Discredit of Financiers in Wartime: Defrauding and Serving the Crown in Seventeenth-Century Spain; Sébastien Malaprade
• Chapter 3. “I carry a serpent in my bosom, which devours me”: Finance, Morality and the Public Service in the Nine Years War, 1688-1697; Aaron Graham
• Chapter 4. The Spanish Monarchy and Financier Fraud During the Early Eighteenth Century: A Morality of Favours and Negotiation; Anne Dubet
• Chapter 5. Forgery of the French Coinage: The Question of the Counterfeit Money in the Southern Low Countries, 1710-1730; Marie-Laure Legay
• Chapter 6. The Talhouët Affair; François R. Velde
• Chapter 7. Tax Officials Stand Accused: Reform in Taxation and Public Morality in the Dutch Republic, 1748-1756; Toon Kerkhoff
• Chapter 8. Between Private and Public Interests: The Moral Economy of Collaboration in Eighteenth-Century Spain; Agustín González Enciso
• Chapter 9. Why did Chambres de Justice Disappear in Eighteenth-Century France? Fiscal Profit and Institutional Change, 1688-1788; Joël Félix
• Chapter 10. War, Resources and Morality: Sweden 1740–1770; Patrik Winton
• Chapter 11. For the Good of the Prince: Government and Corruption in Germany During the Eighteenth Century; Robert Bernsee