Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/233546 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Publisher: 
University of California Press, Oakland, CA
Abstract: 
Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern economic growth, have paid great attention to the formation and development of the market economy as a set of institutions able to augment people's welfare. The role of specific nonmarket practices for promoting the economic development and welfare has been a distinct concern, typically involving discussion of the state's economic policies. How have societies tackled those issues that the market did not? To what extent did those solutions reflect the structure of an economy? Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy explores these questions by investigating efforts made for the provision of "public goods" in early modern economies from the perspective of Japanese socioeconomic history during Tokugawa era (1603-1868), and by comparing those cases with others from Europe and China's economic history. The contributors focus on three areas of inquiry-early modern era welfare policies for the poor, infrastructure, and forest management-to provide both a unique perspective on Japanese public finance at local levels and a vantage point outside of Europe to encourage a more global view of early modern political economies that shaped subsequent modern transformations.
Subjects: 
public goods
market
personal relation
fiscal state
poverty and famine relief
infrastructure building
forestry management
autonomous village
regional society
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ISBN: 
978-0-520-97279-7
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Book
Document Version: 
Published Version

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