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Fiscal pressure and peasant impoverishment in Serbia before World War I
Journal of economic history • 39 (3) • Published In 1979 • Pages: 719-740
By: Palairet, Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
According to Palairet, the expansion of government in Eastern Europe during the half century prior to World War I was financed by steady increases in fiscal pressure on the peasantry through taxation. A quantitative analysis by the author of the situation in Serbia '…indicates that, relative to their incomes, the fiscal burdens on farmers declined markedly, and that the growing revenue was provided mainly by the nonfarm sector. These trends were faciliated by the political strength of the peasants' (p. 719). A broad comparison of the Serbian case to that in Bulgaria and Russia during this period seems to indicate that fiscal pressure on farm incomes actually may have been decreasing throughout Eastern Europe, despite the growth of aggregate taxation.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Income and demand
- External trade
- Taxation and public income
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Serbs
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Economist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca.1860s-1914
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Serbia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael Palairet
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 43006024
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Serbs