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Course Description


Instructor: Esteban Bertera, PhD

We will look at the connection between economic power and war making capacity, and its unavoidable byproduct: the emergence of states as tax gathering entities. After looking at some general theory, we will explore in detail the economic fates of three large empires: Spain ( ca. 1500 ), Holland ( ca 1600 ) and England ( ca 1700 ). Questions to be discussed: how they collected the money, was the money enough, how they faced scarcity, what was the final result (and why ).

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