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Index
Title Page
Contents
About the Author
Dedication
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Cash Nexus
SECTION ONE: SPENDING AND TAXING
1. The Rise and Fall of the Warfare State
2. ‘Hateful Taxes’
3. The Commons and the Castle: Representation and Administration
SECTION TWO: PROMISES TO PAY
4. Mountains of the Moon: Public Debts
5. The Money Printers: Default and Debasement
6. Of Interest
SECTION THREE: ECONOMIC POLITICS
7. Dead Weights and Tax-eaters: The Social History of Finance
8. The Myth of the Feelgood Factor
9. The Silverbridge Syndrome: Electoral Economics
SECTION FOUR: GLOBAL POWER
10. Masters and Plankton: Financial Globalization
11. Golden Fetters, Paper Chains: International Monetary Regimes
12. The American Wave: Democracy’s Flow and Ebb
13. Fractured Unities
14. Understretch: The Limits of Economic Power
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Notes
Acknowledgements
Penguin Story
Copyright Page
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