Governing economy : the reformation of German economic discourse 1750-1840
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Governing economy : the reformation of German economic discourse 1750-1840
Cambridge University Press, 1988
Available at 31 libraries
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Bibliography: p. 211-225
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Seeks to lay the basis for an understanding of "German Economics", an unfamiliar subject for modern political and economic historians. It traces how economics became established in German universities as a systematically taught discipline with an agreed agenda.
Table of Contents
- Text and economy
- polity and economy in the territorial state
- Cameralism as a "science"
- the Viennese orthodoxy - Justi and Sonnenfels
- the institutionalization of Cameralistic orthodoxy
- "Physiokratie" - the reception of the "economistes" in Germany
- the "Smith Reception" and the function of translation
- "Der Mensch and seine Bedurfnisse" - the constitution of "Nationalokonomie"
- a new orthodoxy - K.H.Rau's "Lehrbuch der politischen Oekonomie"
- historical economics in prospect.
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