The Public Good and the Brazilian State: Municipal Finance and Public Services in São Paulo, 1822-1930

by Anne G. Hanley

Who and what a government taxes, and how the government spends the money collected, are questions of primary concern to governments large and small, national and local. When public revenues pay for high-quality infrastructure and social services, citizens thrive and crises are averted. When public revenues are inadequate to provide those goods, inequality thrives and communities can verge into unrest--as evidenced by the riots during Greece's financial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022653507X
• ISBN13: 9780226535074
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.2"