This book reveals the linked history between cameralism and Enlightenment across 18th-century Europe, yielding a transnational, cultural and intellectual histor

Cameralism and the Enlightenment reassesses the relationship between two key phenomena of European history often disconnected from each other. It builds on rece

Probing the relationship between German political economy and everyday fiscal administration, The Disordered Police State focuses on the cameral sciences—a pe

The mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an economic turn that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. The discipline of economics

The first book that acknowledges cameralism as a European rather than just a German historical phenomenon.