4 mai 2017
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Peter Rauscher, « Tax Systems, Debts and Loans: the Case of the Habsburg Monarchy (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries) », Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique, ID : 10.4000/books.igpde.3878
The ‘disease of the state’, Count Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz argued, is decentralization: every province has its own government and constitution and because of the rivalries between the various lands and between the leaders of the authorities the provinces continue to segregate from each other. Kaunitz, head of Austrian foreign policy, was not talking about the European Union but about the early modern Habsburg monarchy after the unsuccessful Seven Years’ War. Even if I am sceptical about the b...