Political economy in the Habsburg monarchy 1750-1774 : the contribution of Ludwig Zinzendorf / Simon Adler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adler, Simon (Visiting research fellow), author.

Series:

Palgrave studies in the history of finance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zinzendorf, Nicolaus Ludwig, Graf von, 1700-1760.

Zinzendorf, Nicolaus Ludwig.

Habsburg, House of.

Austria--Economic conditions--18th century.

Austria.

Economic conditions.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

xv, 288 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Summary:

Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy is an important study of the contribution of Austrian Enlightenment economist Ludwig Zinzendorf to the political economy of the Habsburg monarchy in the mid eighteenth century. Simon Adler provides the first comprehensive analysis, and first ever study in English, of the development of Zinzendorfs thinking on the economy, commerce and, above all, state finances. Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy shows the extent to which Zinzendorfs insights were part of the wider European movement dedicated to understanding political economy as an independent and important activity. It establishes Zinzendorf, a protégé of the State Chancellor Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, as a pivotal figure in the development of Austrian economic and financial policies during the 1750s and 1760s and explains how he challenged cameralism using the most advanced European economic ideas, notably from French writers around Vincent de Gournay. This book is based upon wide-ranging research of primary sources and comprehensive coverage of secondary literature and adds significantly to the ongoing historiographical turn towards political economy in the eighteenth century.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Zinzendorf with Kaunitz in France, 1750-1752

Chapter 3. French Intellectual Influence: Melon and Gournay

Chapter 4. The German Translation of Law's Money and Trade, 1758

Chapter 5. The Development of Zinzendorfs Thinking on State Credit

Chapter 6. The Financial Expert of the Habsburg Monarchy

Chapter 7. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030310066

303031006X

OCLC:

1144785160