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François R. Velde - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Macroeconomic Features of the French Revolution
Princeton University Press, 2017Co-Authors: François R. VeldeAbstract:This chapter examines the French Revolution from the vantage point of macroeconomic theories about government budget constraints. From 1688 to 1788, Britain won and France lost three of four wars. France recurrently defaulted on its debt, while Britain did not. After 1688, Britain had reformed its institutions to allow it to raise enough taxes during peacetime to finance debts incurred in times of war, while France sustained institutions designed to constrain the king's revenues. The chapter considers two macroeconomic ideas and three models of money: unpleasant arithmetic, sustainable plans, tax-backed or asset-backed models of the demand for currency, legal restrictions models of the demand for currency, and classical hyperinflation models along lines described by Phillip Cagan. Inflation during the French Revolution are interpreted in terms of a procession of regimes in which the “if” parts of the three types of monetary models are approximately fulfilled.
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macroeconomic features of the French Revolution
Journal of Political Economy, 1995Co-Authors: Thomas J Sargent, François R. VeldeAbstract:This paper describes aspects of the French Revolution from the perspective of theories about money and government budget constraints. The authors describe how unpleasant fiscal arithmetic gripped the Old Regime, how the Estates General responded to reorganize France's fiscal affairs, and how fiscal exigencies impelled the Revolution into a procession of monetary experiments ending in hyperinflation. Copyright 1995 by University of Chicago Press.
Jeremy Jennings - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Syndicalism and the French Revolution
Journal of Contemporary History, 1991Co-Authors: Jeremy JenningsAbstract:That to this day the vast majority of those on the French Left remain wedded to a conception of the French Revolution as an anticipation of later movements towards greater social and economic equality is beyond dispute. Likewise, it is clear (and well-known) that this reverence for the Great Revolution and its offspring, Jacobinism, is not of recent origin. It was in place certainly by the early years of the Third Republic and so much so that, as Patrick Hutton has remarked, it had become part of the 'mental universe' of broad sections of leftwing opinion.' Yet this predominantly democratic and republican model of social transformation was never able to obtain universal assent on the Left. First Saint-Simon and Fourier and then Proudhon voiced their reservations about the Revolution and to these were added the arguments of such groups as the proletarian positivists who, following Comte, saw 1789 predominantly as an 'aborted' and incomplete attempt to secure a superior level of civilization and organization.2 But the greatest challenge to the ascendancy of the French Revolution and the Jacobin tradition came in the form of the
Thomas J Sargent - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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macroeconomic features of the French Revolution
Journal of Political Economy, 1995Co-Authors: Thomas J Sargent, François R. VeldeAbstract:This paper describes aspects of the French Revolution from the perspective of theories about money and government budget constraints. The authors describe how unpleasant fiscal arithmetic gripped the Old Regime, how the Estates General responded to reorganize France's fiscal affairs, and how fiscal exigencies impelled the Revolution into a procession of monetary experiments ending in hyperinflation. Copyright 1995 by University of Chicago Press.
James Livesey - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Limits of Terror: the French Revolution, Rights and Democratic Transition
Thesis Eleven, 2009Co-Authors: James LiveseyAbstract:The French Revolution has ceased to be the paradigm case of progressive social Revolution. Historians increasingly argue that the heart of the Revolutionary experience was the Terror and that the Terror prefigured 20thcentury totalitarianism. This article contests that view and argues that totalitarianism is too blunt a category to distinguish between varying experiences of Revolution and further questions if Revolutionary outcomes are ideologically determined. It argues that by widening the set of Revolutions to include 17th and 18th century cases, as well as the velvet Revolutions of the 1990s, we can reinterpret the French Revolution as a characteristic case of democratic transition with particular features.
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Making Democracy in the French Revolution
2001Co-Authors: James LiveseyAbstract:This work reasserts the importance of the French Revolution to an understanding of the nature of modern European politics and social life. Contemporary scholars argue that the French Revolution did not significantly contribute to the development of modern political values. They no longer hold that the study of the Revolution offers any particular insight into the dynamics of historical change. James Livesey contends that contemporary historical study is devalued through this misinterpretation of the French Revolution and offers an alternative approach and a new thesis. Livesey argues that the European model of democracy was created in the Revolution, a model with very specific commitments that differentiate it from Anglo-American liberal democracy. The fundamental argument in the book is that these democratic values were created by identifiable actors seeking to answer political, economic, and social problems. The book traces the development of this democratic idea within the structures of the French Republic and the manner in which the democratic aspiration moved beyond formal politics to become embedded in institutions of economic and cultural life.
Timothy Tackett - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The French Revolution and the First Terror
Ágora, 2009Co-Authors: Timothy TackettAbstract:Professor Timothy Tackett, University of California, Irvine delivered a lecture at the University of Melbourne, as a part of the Miegunyah series on 18 September 2008. He spoke about the French Revolution and the First Terror.
