New publications in fiscal sociology

摘要

After a long slumber of some sixty years or two academic generations, fiscal sociology is back as an active research paradigm. Three books at the same time is an impressive reappearance.rnRichard Wagner's "exploratory essay" takes the bull by the horns:rnIf the aim of market theorizing is to explain how people are able to generate generally orderly practices of activity when they relate to one another through private property, the coordinate aim of fiscal theorizing is similarly to explain how orderly patterns of activity emerge when people relate to one another in the particular form of collective property that constitutes a state (p. VII).