caa a22 4500 386329362 CHVBK 20180307111706.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002205070000735X doi S002205070000735X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002205070000735X Weir David R. Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 Tontines, Public Finance, and Revolution in France and England, 1688-1789 [Elektronische Daten] [David R. Weir] Tontines were used more extensively by France than Britain. Comparative tontine history illuminates the differing evolution of public finance in the two countries and its political consequences. Archival materials establish the number of participants in French tontines. Internal rates of return on tontines and alternatives show subsidy of tontines by the French government. Repudiation in 1770 contributed to the political attitudes of life annuitants, the most important class of state creditors, during the fiscal crisis of the late 1780s. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1989 The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 49/1(1989-03), 95-124 0022-0507 49:1<95 1989 49 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S002205070000735X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002205070000735X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Weir David R. Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 49/1(1989-03), 95-124 0022-0507 49:1<95 1989 49 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge