The Fountain of Privilege
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  INTRODUCTION: SPEAKING ACROSS PARADIGMS

 collapse section1—  THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
 •1—  The Market for Property Rights
 •2—  Rivals in Modernization  Creating National Communities in France and England
 collapse section3—  The Redistributive Role of the State
 •The Regulation of Commerce and Industry in France
 •Interest-Group Penetration and Ministerial Discretion
 •The Great Trading Companies of France
 •The Nobility Joins in Redistributional Play
 •Making Law in the British Parliament
 •The Market for Political Favors: The Distinction between Cronyism and Corruption
 •The Perception of Government Corruption in France: The Famine Plot
 •Social Division and Redistributive Politics in Early Modern England and France
 •Economic Efficiency and Absolutism

 collapse section2—  THE LESS PRIVILEGED
 expand section4—  Interpreting Peasant Revolutions

 collapse section3—  THE MORE PRIVILEGED
 expand section5—  The Political Economy of Collective Violence  What Did the "Moral Economy" of Pre-Revolutionary Europe Cost?
 expand section6—  Rent Seeking and Trade Regulation
 expand section7—  The Rise and Decline of English Mercantilism in Comparative Perspective

 collapse section4—  THE VERY PRIVILEGED
 expand section8—  Tying the King's Hands  Credible Commitments and Royal Fiscal Policy under the Old Regime
 expand section9—  The Fiscal Origins of Democratic Revolution

 collapse section5—  HYPOTHESES AND CONCLUSIONS
 expand section10—  Modernization, Revolution, and the State
 •11—  Caveat Emptor  Markets and History

 expand sectionWORKS CITED
 expand sectionINDEX
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