国家能力与经济增长：历史警示

IF 1.2 Q3 ECONOMICS

National Institute Economic Review Pub Date : 2023-02-21 DOI:10.1017/nie.2022.42

Sheilagh Ogilvie

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摘要

摘要本文利用经济史来探讨大分歧和小分歧时期（约1500年至约1850年）国家能力与经济增长之间的关系。它指出了国家能力、财政能力的主要衡量标准中的缺陷，并主张转而分析国家支出。它调查了各国历史上花费资源的五项关键活动：发动战争；提供法律和行政管理；建设基础设施；推行产业政策；以及培养民族文化。它总结道，历史的教训不是建立一个广阔的国家。相反，我们需要一个利用其能力帮助（或至少不阻碍）市场活动的国家。

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STATE CAPACITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: CAUTIONARY TALES FROM HISTORY

Abstract This paper uses economic history to probe the relationship between state capacity and economic growth during the Great and Little Divergences (c.1500–c.1850). It identifies flaws in the dominant measure of state capacity, fiscal capacity, and advocates instead analysing state expenditures. It investigates five key activities on which states historically spent resources: waging war; providing law and administration; building infrastructure; pursuing industrial policy; and fostering a national culture. The lesson of history, it concludes, is not to build a capacious state. Rather, we need a state that uses its capacity to help (or at least not hinder) market activity.

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National Institute Economic Review ECONOMICS-

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3.70

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9.50%

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期刊介绍： The National Institute Economic Review is the quarterly publication of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, one of Britain"s oldest and most prestigious independent research organisations. The Institutes objective is to promote, through quantitative research, a deeper understanding of the interaction of economic and social forces that affect peoples" lives so that they may be improved. It has no political affiliation, and receives no core funding from government. Its research programme is organised under the headings of Economic Modelling and Analysis; Productivity; Education and Training and the International Economy.