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dc.contributor.editorTanimoto, Masayuki
dc.contributor.editorBin Wong, R.
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-04 11:43:13
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T10:50:43Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T10:50:43Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier1004260
dc.identifierOCN: 1100490356en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25828
dc.description.abstractHistorically, 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH Historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economicsen_US
dc.subject.otherpublic goods
dc.subject.othermarket
dc.subject.otherpersonal relation
dc.subject.otherfiscal state
dc.subject.otherpoverty and famine relief
dc.subject.otherinfrastructure building
dc.subject.otherforestry management
dc.subject.otherautonomous village
dc.subject.otherregional society
dc.titlePublic Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy
dc.title.alternativeComparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1525/luminos.63
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b
oapen.relation.isbn9780520303652
oapen.pages349
oapen.place.publicationOakland
oapen.identifier.ocn1100490356


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