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cameralism Pol. Econ. (now Hist.).|ˈkæmərəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. cameral a. + -ism, after G. Kameralismus.]
An economic theory (prevalent in eighteenth-century Germany), which advocated a strong public administration managing a centralized industrial economy.
1909A. W. Small Cameralists xxii. 591 Cameralism..was a theory of managing natural resources and human capacities so that they would be most lucrative for the prince in whose interest the management was conducted. 1949Sloan & Zurcher Dict. Econ. 37 Cameralism was concerned not only with the best ways in which a state might acquire wealth but also with the best uses to which that wealth, once acquired, might be put. 1983M. Raeff Well-Ordered Police State ii. iv. 92 It is usually and quite correctly asserted that mercantilism, by whatever definition, inspired the economic theory and practice of cameralism.
So ˈcameralist, an advocate of such a theory.
1909A. W. Small Cameralists i. 6 We may characterize these cameralists of the books as the group of writers..constructing a ‘science’ or group of ‘sciences’ around the central consideration of the fiscal needs of the prince. 1962Miller & Spielman (title) Rojas y Spinola. Cameralist and Irenicist. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VI. 227/2 The German cameralists, whose ideas powerfully influenced the ambitious economic programs of Frederick II the Great of Prussia. |