Economic Foundations of the Territorial State System

The contemporary world is organized into a system of territorial states in which rulers exercise authority inside clearly defined boundaries and recognize the authority of other rulers outside those boundaries. We develop a model to explain how the major economic and military developments in Europe...

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Published in:American journal of political science 2018-10, Vol.62 (4), p.954-966
Main Authors: Acharya, Avidit, Lee, Alexander
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Competition
Economic development
Governance
Tax revenues
Taxation
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