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- 2025
- Working Paper
Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution
By: Tommaso Giommoni, Gabriel Loumeau and Marco Tabellini
We study the fiscal determinants of the French Revolution, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the salt tax—a large source of royal revenues and one of the most extractive forms of taxation of the Ancien Régime. Implementing a Regression Discontinuity... View Details
Keywords: Extractive Taxation; Regime Change; French Revolution; State Capacity; Taxation; History; Government Administration; Attitudes; Public Opinion
Giommoni, Tommaso, Gabriel Loumeau, and Marco Tabellini. "Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-047, April 2025. (Featured at VoxEU.)
- 28 Sep 2017
- News
An electoral French revolution
- 25 Apr 2025
- News
Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution
- 07 Apr 2025
- News
DP20110 Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
In the decades prior to the advent of radial tires," writes Donald Sull in Business History Review, "Firestone Tire & Rubber was viewed by some observers as the best managed U.S. tire company." But in the face of French... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
economy quietly shifted their focus from market failure to government failure over the second half of the twentieth century, they set the stage for a revolution in both government and markets, the full ramifications of which are still... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade
opened treaty ports. “Canton had been bombarded by the English and French forces . . . and the old factories, the scene of so much interest and happiness, were destroyed forever,” John Heard remembered of the aftermath of the Opium War.... View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
revolution had turned perfume into a branded product, sold at different price points in different distribution channels, and increasingly gendered. While historically men and women had used the same scents, they now began to like to smell... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details
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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First Big Business British Railroads... View Details
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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First Big Business British Railroads... View Details
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Events - Business History
Administration at Harvard Business School, spoke about his new book, Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China (Harvard University Press, 2022). Empires of Ideas chronicles "two revolutions in... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
Moss begins this class, but for the next 90 minutes, we are in the critical period of the mid-1780s, between the end of the American Revolution and the election of the country’s first president, when the nation was governed by the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on... View Details
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Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First Big Business British Railroads... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Charity
encouraged theft. Despite the opposition, they persisted: the mont de piété of Paris survived the French Revolution and two World Wars to become the Crédit Municipal of today and Mexico City’s Monte de... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
for a while, but I was blown away. Just what I need: another must-read magazine in my life. God only knows where I ever found time to hold a job. —Perry Miles (MBA 1972) via alumni.hbs.edu Frozen Assets Re: French View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
In 1995, the Vatican dismissed an outspoken French bishop named Jacques Gaillot. Arguing that Gaillot had been far too liberal for the Church's doctrine, Vatican officials removed him from his diocese outside Paris and sent him to... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
efforts in Germany and France), consumers favor products that evolved slowly and are well engineered, while the French prefer style and innovation. These preferences are not just a matter of national DNA, but also reflect decisions made... View Details