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1、AmericanEconomicAssociationTheOriginsofStateCapacity:PropertyRights,Taxation,andPoliticsAuthor(s):TimothyBesleyandTorstenPerssonReviewedwork(s):Source:TheAmericanEconomicReview,Vol.99,No.4(Sep.,2009),pp.1218-1244Publishedby:AmericanEconomicAssociationStableURL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/255
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4、.jstor.orgAmericanEconomicReview2009,99:4,1218-1244http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.99.4.1218TheOriginsofStateCapacity:PropertyRights,Taxation,andPoliticsByTimothyBesleyandTorstenPersson*Economistsgenerallyassumethatthestatehassufficientinstitutionalcapacitytosupportmarkets
5、andlevytaxes.Thispaperdevelopsaframeworkwhere"policychoices"inmarketregulationandtaxationareconstrainedbypastinvestmentsinlegalandfiscalcapacity.Itstudiestheeconomicandpoliticaldeterminantsofsuchinvestments,demonstratingthatlegalandfiscalcapacityareTheresultsshowthat,amongothercommontypicall
6、ycomplements.things,interestpublicgoods,suchasfightingexternalwars,aswellaspoliticalstabilityandinclusivepoliticalinstitutions,areconducivetobuildingstatecapacity.Somecorrelationsincross-countrydataareconsistentwiththetheory.(JELD72,E62,H11,H20,P14)Historiansseetheevolutionofstatecapacity?es
7、peciallythecapacitytoraisetaxes?asacentralfacttobeexplained,whereaseconomiststypicallyassumethatsuchinstitutionalcapacityexists.Anintriguingargumentbypoliticalhistorians(see,e.g.,CharlesTilly1990)holdsthatstatecapacityevolvedhistoricallyovercenturi
