Absolute monarchies invented standing state credit and tax monopoly
Evidence
Louis XV watched his nobility intently for challenges to his authority; only while they were copulating were they not conspiring. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 107 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Public institutions are structurally easy markets to monopolize and share; Absolute monarchies surveilled the private lives of nobility for political threats. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 107; Physiocrats justified taxation by making the sovereign co-owner of the land — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1459
Related
- Absolute monarchies surveilled the private lives of nobility for political threats. (similarity 0.87)
- Physiocrats justified taxation by making the sovereign co-owner of the land (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Absolute monarchies surveilled the private lives of nobility for political threats.
#expands(0.75) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 107 - Public institutions are structurally easy markets to monopolize and share
#exemplifies(0.72)