Publication: From Pioneering Mercantile State to Ordinary Fiscal State: Portugal 16th-19th Centuries
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2007
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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Laureano Figuerola
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Portugal, un Reino pobre y pequeño llegó a ser un Estado Mercantil pionero gracias a sus Descubrimientos. ¿Cuando estableció sus instituciones fiscales como potencia mundial? ¿Una potencia marítima capaz de ser punta de lanza de la conexión permanente entre Europa y la India fue capaz de establecer unas instituciones fiscales modernas que garantizaran un presupuesto Estatal estable? El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar como el pasado imperial y fiscal impidió a la sociedad civil portuguesa generar el consenso social necesario para incrementar la recaudación de impuestos y establecer instituciones fiscales eficientes.
Portugal, a poor and small kingdom, became a pioneering mercantile state thanks to its Discoveries. When did Portugal establish its fiscal institutions as a world power? Was such a powerful maritime nation, capable of spearheading a permanent link between Europe and India, able to establish modern fiscal institutions strong enough to guarantee a stable State budget? The objective of this paper is to show that the country’s fiscal and imperial past prevented Portuguese civil society from establishing efficient fiscal institutions and generating a social consent for increasing tax collection
Portugal, a poor and small kingdom, became a pioneering mercantile state thanks to its Discoveries. When did Portugal establish its fiscal institutions as a world power? Was such a powerful maritime nation, capable of spearheading a permanent link between Europe and India, able to establish modern fiscal institutions strong enough to guarantee a stable State budget? The objective of this paper is to show that the country’s fiscal and imperial past prevented Portuguese civil society from establishing efficient fiscal institutions and generating a social consent for increasing tax collection
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Estado Mercantil, Estado Fiscal, Historia Fiscal, Portugal siglos XVI-XIX, Mercantile state, Fiscal state, Fiscal history, Portugal 16th-19th centuries
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Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Año XXV, primavera 2007, n. 1, pp. 123-146