eprintid: 10039238 rev_number: 30 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/03/92/38 datestamp: 2018-03-22 14:57:26 lastmod: 2021-09-26 22:45:31 status_changed: 2018-03-22 14:57:26 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Cardinale, I creators_name: Coffman, D title: Economic Interdependencies and Political Conflict: The Political Economy of Taxation in Eighteenth Century Britain ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C04 divisions: F37 keywords: Social Sciences, Economics, Business & Economics, CONSTITUTIONS, COMMITMENT, EVOLUTION note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: The recent financial crisis has highlighted conflicts of interests between socio-economic groups over economic policy. We use representations of economies as systems of interdependencies among productive sectors to conceptualize economic and political cleavages in terms of the contingent interplay of economic interdependencies between sectors and political conflict between the groups that represent those sectors. In doing so, we propose a structural and historical approach, which is illustrated with reference to three moments in the evolution of the eighteenth-century British fiscal system. Each of these case studies (the Beer Taxes of the 1690s, the Excise Crisis of 1733, and the Income Taxes of the Napoleonic Wars) reveals a different dimension of our approach. We close with some reflections on the conditions under which political conflict may be sustainable and provide directions for further inquiry. date: 2014-12-01 date_type: published publisher: SOC ED IL MULINO official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1428/78897 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1437392 doi: 10.1428/78897 lyricists_name: Coffman, D'Maris lyricists_id: DCOFF28 actors_name: Dewerpe, Marie actors_id: MDDEW97 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Economia Politica volume: 31 number: 3 pagerange: 277-300 pages: 24 issn: 1973-820X citation: Cardinale, I; Coffman, D; (2014) Economic Interdependencies and Political Conflict: The Political Economy of Taxation in Eighteenth Century Britain. Economia Politica , 31 (3) pp. 277-300. 10.1428/78897 <https://doi.org/10.1428/78897>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10039238/7/Coffman_Cardinale%20%26%20Coffman%202015%20Economia%20Politica.pdf