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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Other Authors: Backhaus, Jürgen Georg (Editor), Backhaus, Jurgen G. 19
Resource Type: Electronic Resource
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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505 0 |a 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 econom 
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520 |a 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) by Johann Friederich (von) Pfeiffer (1718-1787) greatly reduced the impact of the movement in Germany. However, Physiocracy did have some long-term effects, which are especially very relevant today and worthy of closer examination. The movement also has gained renewed interest in recent years because of the emphasis on land and the environment. The main consequence of Physiocracy was the development of forestry?the maintenance of forests to ensure sustainability?which would become the first of the applied environmental sciences. The other lasting point of Physiocracy is the idea of a single tax on land?made popular by Henry George in the late 19th century?while Antiphysiocracy has left us with a manifold and complex tax system. The contribution and significance of the Physiocrats and Antiphysiocrats are explored in detail through chapter contributions by economists, philosophers, and social historians. For example, Erik Reinert examines the topic of protective measures and puts it in a broader context in his chapter, which also includes several figures on technological dynamics. This topic is carried further by Sophus Reinert of Cambridge University, who focuses on economic espionage at the time. Enrico Schöbel and Hans Frambach look at the economic policy side of Physiocracy with respect to taxation. Kenneth Carpenter at Harvard shows that it was not the Bible that was the mostly widespread literature in the nineteenth century, as one might expect, but the Pfeiffer-type publications that shaped the knowledge economy. The book concludes that neither the Physiocrats, nor the Antiphysiocrats were pure profit maximizers and that they all had the well-being of the commonwealth in mind. It brings to light previous studies only conducted in German and is the first analysis of Pfeiffer in a century, making the book of interest to any student or scholar of political economy and the history of economic thoug 
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