Open AccessOn Some Fiscal Decisions of Caligula and Vespasian
Author(s) -
Anna Pikulska-Radomska
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
studia ceranea
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2449-8378
pISSN - 2084-140X
DOI - 10.18778/2084-140x.02.05
Subject(s) - treasury , empire , state (computer science) , revenue , economics , tax revenue , keynesian economics , history , monetary economics , macroeconomics , finance , ancient history , archaeology , computer science , algorithm
The history of the Roman Empire is a history of continuously looking for new sources of state revenues. Numerous public loads, spontaneously created during the early Empire, without any deeper analysis, created a disordered mess of particular and curious taxes rather than a centralized system as an instrument of controlling economic processes. The tax decisions of the emperors mentioned in the title, in spite of having a significant influence on the state treasury, were, in fact, of the same disordered nature.