Fiskus - Verfassung - Freiheit

No commonwealth in the past or present is simply a ‘tax state’. Instead, the political economy of state finances is characterised by society. Social order, fiscal structure and the political constitution determine each other. Nevertheless, political science has not yet explored the fact that eminent political thinkers discuss the financing of public goods controversially. This book intends to fill this gap. From Hobbes, Locke and Hume, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Burke, Marx, Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill and Max Weber, Schumpeter, Abendroth and Forsthoff to Buchanan and later influential thinkers, the contributions in this volume examine the relevant stages of, and discourses and positions on constitutional fiscal ideals presented in their genesis, contexts and systems. Each contribution focuses on the question of fiscal-based political freedom.

With contibutions by
Olaf Asbach | Harald Bluhm | Hinnerk Bruhns | Rudolf Dujmovits | Timm Graßmann | Frauke Höntzsch | Sebastian Huhnholz | André Kahl |Skadi Siiri Krause | Florian Meinel | Michael Schefczyk | Daniel Schulz | Richard Sturn | Christian Waldhoff | Gerhard Wegner