Why fiscal estates matter: some concluding thoughts on the economic importance of public goods

This article offers some food for thought based on the articles in the dossier on tax property in Italy (with a contribution on the Middle Meuse). It points out five specific aspects that deserve discussion: 1 degrees the more or less restrictive definition of the concept of fiscus 2 degrees that of the strategic importance of the control of resources (fuel, ore, energy) in these fiscal properties 3 degrees the problem of the organisation of work and the presence of corvee on fiscal properties 4 degrees the way in which wealth circulated, according to interpretative models alternative to trade before the dissolution of the Ottonian order, in Italy, and the paradigm shift caused by the commercial boom - with its links with cities 5 degrees the overall economic consequences, in the medium and long term, of the redistribution of fiscal properties into the hands of other owners.