TY  - BOOK
ED  - Tanimoto, Masayuki
ED  - Bin Wong, R.
AB  - Historically, for sustaining and reproducing their economic lives, people have obtained goods and services through various ways. How did people tackle issues that the market did not handle well? This volume compares early modern efforts to provide “public goods”—defined in contraposition to market-mediated goods and goods provided through personal relations, such as kinship ties. We examine poverty and famine relief, infrastructure building, and forestry management in East Asia and Europe, using Japan’s Tokugawa era (1603–1868) as a benchmark from which consider the cases in Prussia, China, and England. Taking advantage of rich scholarship on the role of autonomous village and regional society in Japan’s early modern history, the volume highlights the diverse approaches to providing public goods across societies, relativizing the discussion on the formation of fiscal state drawn from the experience in “advanced” Western Europe, and it constructs the beginnings of an early modern basis for forecasting the diversity in public-goods provision future into the modern and contemporary periods.
DO  - 10.1525/luminos.63
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004260
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1100490356
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25828
KW  - public goods
KW  - market
KW  - personal relation
KW  - fiscal state
KW  - poverty and famine relief
KW  - infrastructure building
KW  - forestry management
KW  - autonomous village
KW  - regional society
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25828/1/public-goods-and-provision-in-the-early-modern-economy.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25828/1/public-goods-and-provision-in-the-early-modern-economy.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25828/1/public-goods-and-provision-in-the-early-modern-economy.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33046
PB  - University of California Press
PP  - Oakland
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9780520303652
TI  - Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy : Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe
ER  - 
