...Probing the relationship between German political economy and everyday fiscal administration, this book 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...

... democracy economic constitution Social Insurance Schemes Adjustment Law social market economy Protestantism Catholic social doctrine Bismarckian welfare state German political economy European common market This chapter makes three broad claims. The first is that we will not be able...