The Disordered Police State : German Cameralism as Science and Practice /
Wakefield, Andre, author.
Probing the relationship between German political economy and everyday fiscal administration, The Disordered Police State focuses on the cameral sciences-a peculiarly German body of knowledge designed to train state officials-and in so doing offers a new vision of science and practice during the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries. Andre Wakefield shows that the cameral sciences were at once natural, technological, and economic disciplines, but, more important, they also were strategic sciences, designed to procure patronage for their authors and good publicity for 
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Probing the relationship between German political economy and everyday fiscal administration, The Disordered Police State focuses on the cameral sciences-a peculiarly German body of knowledge designed to train state officials-and in so doing offers a new vision of science and practice during the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries. Andre Wakefield shows that the cameral sciences were at once natural, technological, and economic disciplines, but, more important, they also were strategic sciences, designed to procure patronage for their authors and good publicity for 
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Mercantile system
Mercantile system