TY - JOUR
T1 - From pioneering mercantile state to ordinary fiscal state
T2 - Portugal 16th-19th centuries
AU - Mata, Maria Eugénia
PY - 2007/1
Y1 - 2007/1
N2 - Portugal, a poor and small kingdom, became a pioneering mercantile state thanks to its Discoveries. When did Portugal establish its fiscal institutions as a world power? Was such a powerful maritime nation, capable of spearheading a permanent link between Europe and India, able to establish modern fiscal institutions strong enough to guarantee a stable State budget? The objetive for this paper is to show that the country's fiscal and imperial past prevented Portuguese civil society from establishing efficient fiscal institutions and generating a social consent for increasing tax collection.
AB - Portugal, a poor and small kingdom, became a pioneering mercantile state thanks to its Discoveries. When did Portugal establish its fiscal institutions as a world power? Was such a powerful maritime nation, capable of spearheading a permanent link between Europe and India, able to establish modern fiscal institutions strong enough to guarantee a stable State budget? The objetive for this paper is to show that the country's fiscal and imperial past prevented Portuguese civil society from establishing efficient fiscal institutions and generating a social consent for increasing tax collection.
U2 - 10.1017/S0212610900000070
DO - 10.1017/S0212610900000070
M3 - Article
SN - 2041-3335
VL - 25
SP - 123
EP - 145
JO - Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History
JF - Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History
IS - 1
ER -