The revenue function of the state

Clair Quentin

Chapter 7 in Capital, Revenue and the Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics of Value, 2026, pp 96-107 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter discusses the contestation over revenues between the fiscal state and global corporate capital, which is characterized as a contestation over which category of institution commands the lion's share of surplus. While the winner is global corporate capital, the loser is not so much fiscal states in general as specifically the fiscal states of the Global South/economic periphery, owing to the Global North/economic core's indirect fiscal recourse to surplus via the unproductive labor in the corporate sector that constitutes both an instrument of, and some of the fruits of, global corporate capital's supremacy in its contestation over surplus with the fiscal state.

Keywords: Fiscal Sociology; Taxation; Fiscal Crisis; Unproductive Labor; Unequal Exchange; Inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035359998
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