{"id":4414,"date":"2021-02-07T13:07:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T18:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2021-02-07T17:36:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T22:36:49","slug":"wozniakowski-on-the-fiscal-origins-of-american-power-federal-tax-policy-and-us-territorial-expansion-in-the-nineteenth-century-robschucentre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2021\/02\/07\/wozniakowski-on-the-fiscal-origins-of-american-power-federal-tax-policy-and-us-territorial-expansion-in-the-nineteenth-century-robschucentre\/","title":{"rendered":"Wo\u017aniakowski on The Fiscal Origins of American Power: Federal Tax Policy and US Territorial Expansion in the Nineteenth Century @RobSchuCentre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomasz P. Wo\u017aniakowski, Hertie School of Governance, has published <a href=\"https:\/\/privpapers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3763955&amp;dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_legal:history:ejournal_abstractlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Fiscal Origins of American Power: Federal Tax Policy and US Territorial Expansion in the Nineteenth Century<\/a> as Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2020\/103. Here is the abstract.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this working paper, I argue that United States (US) territory quadrupled within the first three generations since 1789 because, in the nineteenth century, the US developed a fiscal-military state capable of mobilizing considerable resources without provoking any major tax rebellion. Relying on indirect taxes\u2014customs duties and excises\u2014meant that the federal government could draw on a stable and uncontentious stream of revenue. This fiscal capacity allowed the US government to finance different methods of its territorial expansion, including warfare and purchase.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download the article from SSRN at the link.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomasz P. Wo\u017aniakowski, Hertie School of Governance, has published The Fiscal Origins of American Power: Federal Tax Policy and US Territorial Expansion in the Nineteenth Century as Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[529,132,624,623],"class_list":["post-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-history","tag-legal-history","tag-news","tag-tax-history","tag-tax-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-19c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4416,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions\/4416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}