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This book is a key example of the emergence of public choice theory by an economist who was to become one of its major exponents. It combines a detailed, critical study of the Monopolies Commission, with an analysis of the economic issues involved in monopoly supervision and control.

Government monopolies --- Monopolies, Government --- State monopolies --- Government business enterprises --- Government ownership --- Monopolies --- Great Britain. --- E-books

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A government monopoly provides an excellent case study of state-society relationships. This is especially true of the tobacco monopoly in colonial Mexico, whose revenues in the later half of the eighteenth century were second only to the silver tithe as the most valuable source of government income. This comprehensive study of the tobacco monopoly illuminates many of the most important themes of eighteenth-century Mexican social and economic history, from issues of economic growth and the supply of agricultural credit to rural relations, labor markets, urban protest and urban workers, class formation, work discipline, and late colonial political culture. Drawing on exhaustive research of previously unused archival sources, Susan Deans-Smith examines a wide range of new questions. Who were the bureaucrats who managed this colonial state enterprise and what policies did they adopt to develop it? How profitable were the tobacco manufactories, and how rational was their organization? What impact did the reorganization of the tobacco trade have upon those people it affected most—the tobacco planters and tobacco workers? This research uncovers much that was not previously known about the Bourbon government's management of the tobacco monopoly and the problems and limitations it faced. Deans-Smith finds that there was as much continuity as change after the monopoly's establishment, and that the popular response was characterized by accommodation, as well as defiance and resistance. She argues that the problems experienced by the monopoly at the beginning of the nineteenth century did not originate from any simmering, entrenched opposition. Rather, an emphasis upon political stability and short-term profits prevented any innovative reforms that might have improved the monopoly's long-term performance and productivity. With detailed quantitative data and rare material on the urban working poor of colonial Mexico, Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers will be important reading for all students of social, economic, and labor history, especially of Mexico and Latin America.

Tobacco industry --- Government monopolies --- Tobacco workers --- History --- Monopolies, Government --- State monopolies --- Government business enterprises --- Government ownership --- Monopolies --- Tobacco manufacture and trade --- Tobacco products industry --- Plant products industry --- Employees

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Salt industry and trade --- Government monopolies --- History. --- Song shi. --- China --- History --- Monopolies, Government --- State monopolies --- Government business enterprises --- Government ownership --- Monopolies --- Nonmetallic minerals industry --- Monograph on salt in the Shihuozhi of the Songshi --- Songshi salt monopoly treatise

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From its inception in the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.), the salt monopoly was a key component in the Chinese government's financial toolkit. Salt, with its highly localized and large-scale production, was an ideal target for bureaucratic management. In the Song dynasty (960-1279), fiscal pressures on the government had intensified with increased centralization and bureaucratization. A bloated administration and an enormous standing army maintained against incursions by aggressive steppe neighbors placed tremendous strain on Song finances. Developing the salt monopoly seemed a logical and indeed urgent strategy, but each actor in this plan -- the emperor, local officials, monopoly administrators, producers, merchants, and consumers -- had his own interests to protect and advance. Thus attempts to maximize the effectiveness of the monopoly meant frequent policy swings and led to levels of corruption that would ultimately undo the Song. Unlike other contemporary sources, the 'Songshi' treatise organizes its subject into an intelligible and detailed narrative, elucidating special terminology, the bureaucracy and its processes, and debates relating to Chinese finance and politics, as well as the salt industry itself. Professor Chien's extensive annotation relies on parallel histories that corroborate and supplement the 'Songshi' account, together providing a comprehensive study of this important institution in China's premodern political economy. Cecilia Chien is Assistant Professor in the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Government monopolies --- Salt industry and trade --- History. --- Song shi. --- China --- History --- Nonmetallic minerals industry --- Monopolies, Government --- State monopolies --- Government business enterprises --- Government ownership --- Monopolies --- Monograph on salt in the Shihuozhi of the Songshi --- Songshi salt monopoly treatise --- S10/0401 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Salt monopoly (incl. Yantielun)

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Government monopolies --- Industrial policy --- Iron industry and trade --- History --- S17/0214 --- Ferrous metal industries --- Metal trade --- Steel industry and trade --- Business --- Industries --- Industry and state --- Economic policy --- Monopolies, Government --- State monopolies --- Government business enterprises --- Government ownership --- Monopolies --- China: Art and archaeology--Archaeology China: Pre-Han and Han --- Government policy --- China --- Antiquities.