Tax Farming in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Institutional Backwardness or the Emergence of Modern Public Finance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3167684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nadir Özbek, Nadır Özbek (0000-0003-1993-0067, Bogaziçi University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 219-245 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/jinh_a_01267 |
| OpenAlex | W2889252415 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 8 |
Although tax farming-the delegation of tax collection to private individuals for profit-was common in most European countries prior to the nineteenth century, this privatized form essentially disappeared from Europe with the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. In the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century, however, tax farming remained an important instrument for extracting revenue from customs transactions, domestic and international trade, and agricultural production. The Ottoman case is unique not only for retaining this mechanism within a larger revenue collection system, even beyond the end of the century, but also for deploying it to collect the tithe, a direct tax on agricultural production. This fiscal system, which made perfect sense within the Ottoman context, was hardly archaic and primitive when considered within a broader framework
Agriculture · Archaeology · Backwardness · Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Economic history · Economic policy · Economics · Economy · Empire · Political science · Profit (economics) · Public economics · Revenue · Tax revenue · Finance · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |