Taxation: A Vantage on the Reframing of the Economic Past

A Review of Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States , edited by Andrew Monson and Walter Scheidel (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and Ancient Taxation: The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective , edited by Jonathan Valk and Irene Soto Marín (New York University Press, 2021)