Non-Fiscal Tax Policies and State Sovereignty

In this interdisciplinary book, Giulio Allevato explores how the non-fiscal function of the taxing power has contributed to the establishment, consolidation, and maintenance of an effective power to govern in modern nation states. Innovative in its historical approach, this book illustrates how the link between non-budgetary tax policies and state sovereignty continues to play out in the current global landscape. Non-Fiscal Tax Policies and State Sovereignty identifies and analyses certain ‘wave