The first book that acknowledges cameralism as a European rather than
just a German historical phenomenon.
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 - aform 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 ModernHistory 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,
GÖRAN RYDÉN, MARTEN SEPPEL, KEITH TRIBE, PAUL WARDE
