Article ID: CBB001212666

Political Arithmetic and the English Land Tax in the Reign of William III (2013)

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Loft, Philip (Author)


Historical Journal
Volume: 56, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 321-343

This article explores the role of the method of political arithmetic and political arithmeticians in the changing methods of raising finance during the Nine Years War. It discusses the actions of parliament-men in committees and their interaction with reports containing data, and the influence of projectors on the decision to introduce, and later abandon, the pound rate. Throughout this period, political arithmeticians were active participants, providing data, advice, and schemes to the treasury and parliament, and when they were not, `country' MPs, in particular, were active in calling for data and leading its cross-examination. This article suggests that debates on public finance did not occur along party lines, with `county communities' given fresh presence by the quantification of the inequality of the land tax burden. Political arithmetic is shown to have played an important role in the processes and negotiations that occurred over the setting of taxation policy in the `long eighteenth century'.

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Authors & Contributors
Fontaine, Philippe
Backhouse, Roger E.
McLean, Iain
Ashworth, William J.
Backouche, Isabelle
Bouk, Daniel B.
Journals
History of the Human Sciences
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Arms and Armour Society Journal
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Histoire & Mesure
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Oxford University Press
Santa Coloma de Queralt [Tarragona] Obrador edèndum; [Tarragona] Universitat Rovira i Virgili
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Economics
Political science
Statistics
Science and politics
Social sciences
Actuarial science
People
William III, King of England
Babbage, Charles
Boyle, Robert
Cusanus, Nicolaus
Filangieri, Gaetano
Hobbes, Thomas
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
Medieval
Places
England
Great Britain
United States
British Isles
Netherlands
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