What is it about?
How government revenue is raised, and how government revenue is spent in war and in peace, and its resulting tax burdens over time.
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Why is it important?
Its the first study to do this comprehensively for an American colony. Colonial finances are distinctly different than later US state public finances. Colonial governments engaged in innovative finance using paper money and land-bank loans.
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This page is a summary of: Colonial New Jersey's provincial fiscal structure, 1704–1775: spending obligations, revenue sources, and tax burdens during peace and war, Financial History Review, June 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0968565016000093.
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