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Creating Freedom, Constructing “Laissez-Faire”

In: Freedom and Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

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  • Philipp Robinson Rössner

    (University of Manchester)

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This chapter builds up on this, by mainly focusing on some key ideas of the mercantilists and Cameralists of how markets could be positively stimulated and the material environment productively improved, given all the hindrances to economic freedom discussed in the previous chapters. These ideas were widely shared across Europe and outside the German-speaking lands, where Cameralism is usually located by scholars. Often identified as interventionist following a rather brutal strategy of infant industry promotion and other forms of harsh regulation, I argue that these measures were conceptualized as tools governing or working towards achieving individual economic freedom, not roads to serfdom.

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  • Philipp Robinson Rössner, 2020. "Creating Freedom, Constructing “Laissez-Faire”," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Freedom and Capitalism in Early Modern Europe, chapter 0, pages 129-136, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-53309-0_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-53309-0_6
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