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What is a cameralist?

What is a cameralist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A public administrative servant of continental rulers of the 17th and 18th centuries who was a mercantilist and advocated economic policies tending to strengthen the position of the ruler.
  2. (economics) An economist who strongly emphasizes political factors in recommending economic policy.
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The cameralist roots of Menger are discussed by Paul Silverman.
Furthermore, cameralist plans hatched during the Enlightenment to create a network of priest-doctors came to nothing in Germany and Sweden.
Police was at its essence a continental concept connoting family of regulatory institutions in the German cameralist vein.
These shifts reflect the influence of mercantilist and cameralist thinking which argued that the health of populations was a key aspect to the health of the state.
For instance, the cameralist regimes that emerged in the 16th century were operated quite differently from the various mercantilist empires to their west.
But their goals were less narrowly fiscal, and they lacked the cameralist faith in the ability of the state to achieve its goals through coercive means.

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