Die Entwicklung des „Steuerstaates“: Ursprung, Aufstieg und Ende eines finanzwirtschaftlichen Fortschrittsparadigmas

Leipold Alexander () and Huhnholz Sebastian ()
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Leipold Alexander: Universität Hamburg, Mittelweg 177, D-20148 Hamburg, Germany
Huhnholz Sebastian: Leibniz-Universität, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Schneiderberg 50, D-30167 Hannover, Germany

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2021, vol. 62, issue 2, 505-552

Abstract: For decades, the Schumpeterian tax state was considered the central paradigm of Fiscal Sociology. However, it increasingly fails to meet many of the conceptual challenges of contemporary public finance. To demonstrate this, the paper undertakes a double re-contextualization of the discourse on public finance. Its development is traced back to evolutionary thinking, which Joseph Schumpeter updated around 1918. However, and following the rise of democratic capitalism after 1945, thinking about the tax state became intertwined with economic control. Its socio-political specifics were marginalized. Since the Great Recession of 2008/2009 and widening fiscal crises in advanced capitalist economies, this discursive narrowing has again become the subject of political and economic controversies.

Keywords: Staatsfinanzen; Fiskalentwicklung; Schumpeter; Steuerstaat; Ideengeschichte; public finance; fiscal evolution; tax state; intellectual history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2021-0018

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