Paying for the Liberal State: The Rise of Public Finance in Nineteenth Century Europe - Hardcover

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Pedro Lains is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He is editor of Análise Social, Secretary-General of the European Historical Economics Society, and member of the Instituto Laureano Figuerola at the Universidad Carlos III, Madrid. He was Director of Imprensa de Ciências Sociais (2004-7) and President of the Portuguese Economic and Social History Association (2003-7). He has published in Análise Social, European Review of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, Historical Research, Open Economies Review, Research in Economic History, Revista de Historia Economica, and Scandinavian Economic History Review. His most recent books are História Económica de Portugal, 1700-2000 (2005, with A. Ferreira da Silva); Classical Trade Protectionism, 1815-1914 (2006, with J.-P. Dormois); Em Nome da Europa, 1986-2006 (2007, with M. Costa Lobo); História da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, 1910-1974 (vol. 2, 2008); Agriculture and Economic Development in Europe since 1870 (2008, with V. Pinilla); and Portugal sem Fronteiras: Os novos horizontes da economia portuguesa (2009).