The Political Economy of Public Finance

Marc Buggeln is lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Martin Daunton was Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge from 1997 to 2015, and was previously Astor Professor of British History at University College London. Alexander Nützenadel is Professor of Economic and Social History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

• 1. Introduction: the political economy of public finance since the 1970s: questioning the Leviathan Marc Buggeln, Martin Daunton and Alexander Nützenadel; 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 Hürlimann; 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 Zohlnhöfer; 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.