FLORIAN SCHUI is a historian of political and economic thought at the University of Cambridge, where he completed his PhD in 2004 and is a Junior Research Fellow at St. Edmund's College. He has studied economics at the New School for Social Research in New York and history at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany. He is currently working on international exchanges of ideas about taxation in Europe and the Atlantic world, 1750 - 1848.