J. F. Bosher, Bosher J. F.

French Finances 1770 1795

From Business to Bureaucracy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Professor Bosher shows that the monarchy was financed by a chaotic system of private enterprise which proved increasingly unmanageable and wasteful.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9780521089081
• ISBN-10: 0521089085
• Artikelnr.: 25043981

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Central Administration of Finance and How it Worked: 1. Introduction
2. King and Council
3. The Minister and his Department
4. The Accountants and their Caisses
5. Private Enterprise in Public Finance
6. The Chamber of Accounts
Part II. The Bureaucratic Revolution: 7. Thoughts of reform
8. A Decade of Reform (1771-1781)
9. Six years of Reaction (1781-1787)
10. The Financial Crisis of 1787
11. The Founding of the Modern Treasury
12. Struggles for Control of the Treasury
13. Towards a Single Caisse
14. Nationalizing the Debt
15. Towards Public Administration
16. Conclusion.