Tax collection in the Roman Empire: a new institutional economics approach
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Abstract This paper reviews the Roman tax collection system since Late Republic to Principality, focusing on transition from tax-farming a more centralized, census-based administration. We attempt justify this according New Institutional Economic theories (Transaction Cost Economics and Property Rights Theory). The argues that, during Republic, auction-based of farming ended up giving place opportunistic behaviors abusing practices due information asymmetries contract incompleteness, enhanced by collusion farmers governors. Principality improved efficiency through introduction bureaucratic administration, which allowed imperial employees monitor activities.
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عنوان ژورنال: Constitutional Political Economy
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1043-4062', '1572-9966']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-021-09355-5