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Continental Public Finance: Mapping and Recovering a Tradition

Published:2005-04-01 Issue:1 Volume:23 Page:43-67
ISSN:2515-6918
Container-title:Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice

Author:

Backhaus Jürgen G.¹,Wagner Richard E.²

Affiliation:

1. Krupp Chair in Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology, University of Erfurt, Nordhauser Str. 63, 99089 Erfurt - Germany

2. Harris Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, MSN 3G4, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030 - USA

Abstract

Abstract 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 public finance, we examine the science-of-state approach, the catallactical approach to public finance associated with Knut Wicksel, the Italian fiscal scholarship, and the fiscal sociology. The purpose of this essay is to introduce the reader to a tradition in public finance analysis that, while having experienced a diminished presence in contemporary textbook treatments, nonetheless offers high potential value for fiscal scholarship.

Publisher

Bristol University Press

Subject

General Economics, Econometrics and Finance,Public Administration

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