Cameralism in Practice

<p>This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance early modern state-building and economy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. It argues that the cameralist conception of state and economy - a form of 'science' of government dedicated to reforming society while promoting economic development and often associated mainly with Prussia - had significant impact far beyond Germany and Austria. In fact its influence spread into Denmark Sweden Russia Portugal Northern Italy and other parts of Europe. In this volume an international set of experts discusses administrative practices and policies in relation to population forestry proto-industry trade mining affairs education police regulation and insurance. The book will appeal to early modernists economic historians and historians of economic thought. MARTEN SEPPEL is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Tartu Estonia. He holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. KEITH TRIBE has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and taught at the University of Keele (UK) from 1976 to 2002 retiring as Reader in Economics. He is now working as a highly regarded professional translator and independent scholar. Forthcoming work includes a new translation of Max Weber Economy and Society Part One (Harvard University Press 2018). His publications include Strategies of Economic Order (CUP 1995/2007); The Economy of the Word. Language History and Economics (OUP 2015); and (edited with Pat Hudson) The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Agenda 2016). Contributors: ROGER BARTLETT ALEXANDRE MENDES CUNHA HANS FRAMBACH GUILLAUME GARNER LARS MAGNUSSON INGRID MARKUSSEN FRANK OBERHOLZNER GORAN RYDEN MARTEN SEPPEL KEITH TRIBE PAUL WARDE</p>