Physiocracy, Antiphysiocracy and Pfeiffer

Physiocracy, or the economic theory that a nation’s wealth comes from is agricultural and land development, was a popular school of thought in France in the 18th century. It was short-lived and it did not take long for the counter position, called Antiphysiocracy, to succeed it. Antiphysiokrat (1780...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Backhaus, Jürgen Georg (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
Series:The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences ; 10
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction - The Point of Physiocracy and its Anti-Thesis
  • “Schauplatz der Künste und Handwerke” and the Translation of Economics Books at the Time of Justi and Pfeiffer
  • Johann August Schlettwein: The German Physiocrat
  • Rationality in Physiocratic Thought
  • Cameralism and Physiocracy as the two sides of a coin – the example of the economic policy of Johann Friedrich von Pfeiffer
  • Physiocrats and Laws of Population
  • The Technological Dynamics of Capitalism: Colbertism, Cameralism and Antiphysiocracy meet Schumpeter
  • On the Reception of Physiocratic Thought in German History of Economics
  • Mature Cameralism according to Pfeiffer
  • Economic Espionage and the Grand Tour: The Emulation of Tuscan Antiphysiocracy in the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway
  • Pfeiffer and the Foundation of the Science of Forestry
  • Establishing sustainability theory within classical forest science – the role of cameralism and classical political economy.