States and the crafting of souls: Mind, society, and fiscal sociology
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For the most part, public finance theory follows economic theory in taking individual preferences as given. The resulting analytical agenda revolves around the ability of different fiscal institutions to reflect and aggregate those preferences into collective outcomes. This paper explores to what extent fiscal institutions can influence and shape what are commonly referred to as preferences. Statecraft thus becomes necessarily a branch of soulcraft, with the state as inescapably involved in shaping preferences through its impact on the moral imagination, not just in reflecting or representing them. This paper first explores some general conceptual issues, then examines some particular illustrations. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: B3; H30
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