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Fiscal Sociology: What for?
- J. Backhaus
- Economics
- 2002
In discussing the question: fiscal sociology: what for, I shall first give a short sketch of the history of thought of the field. Secondly, main issues are identified. First in discussing the concept…
Pareto on public choice
- J. Backhaus
- Economics
- 1 March 1978
In his Trattato di Scoiologia Generale1 (1916), Vilfredo Pareto outlined a generalised theory of social interaction which methodologically is the application of economic reasoning2 to the analysis of…
Handbook of public finance
- J. Backhaus, R. Wagner
- Economics
- 2005
1. Society, State, and Public Finance: Setting the Analytical Stage J.G. Backhaus, R.E. Wagner.- 2. Welfare Economics and Public Finance R.S. Sobel.- 3. Fiscal Constitutionalism G. Brennan, G.…
Corporate governance and mass privatisation: A theoretical investigation of transformations in legal and economic relationships
- F. Stephen, J. Backhaus
- Economics
- 1 June 2003
After the precipitated decline of the Soviet Empire and its satellite states, a system change seemed to be called for, and many countries embarked on social and political reforms focussing on…
From Continental Public Finance to Public Choice: Mapping Continuity
- J. Backhaus, R. Wagner
- Economics
- 2005
While government is the object that fiscal theorists examine, the history of public finance reveals two distinct orientations toward that examination. One orientation treats the state as autonomous…
Essays on social security and taxation: Gustav von Schmoller and Adolph Wagner reconsidered
- J. Backhaus
- Economics
- 1997
Continental public finance: mapping and recovering a tradition
- J. Backhaus, R. Wagner
- Economics
- 2005
This essay surveys some general features of continental public finance analysis, emphasizing its distinctiveness from Anglo-Saxon public economic theory. Starting from the cameralist origins of…
Subsidiarity and ecologically based taxation: A european constitutional perspective
- J. Backhaus
- Political Science
- 1 March 1997
The principle of subsidiarity through its re-affirmation in the Treaty of Maastricht became an integral and central part of European constitutional law. Its relationship to ecological issues,…
The State as a Club: A Perspective for Public Finance in a Prosperous Democracy (*)
- J. Backhaus
- Political Science
- 1 April 1992
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