Uribe-Castro, Mateo

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  • Cuadernos de Historia Económica - Smithian State Formation

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    This paper examines how inequality in land ownership influences the state's capacity to collect taxes. Its main contribution to the literature is a new explanation for the origins of state capacity, whereby elites may be willing to finance the state if they perceive that public spending increases…