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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

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Andrew Monson  and
Walter Scheidel
Andrew Monson
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New York University
Walter Scheidel
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States , pp. 1 - 28
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  • Introduction
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