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The German Translation of Law’s Money and Trade, 1758

In: Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy 1750–1774

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  • Simon Adler

    (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

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This chapter throws light on the importance of translations in the eighteenth century. It analyses Zinzendorf’s German translation of John Law’s economic treatise Money and Trade (1705). The translation was printed in 1758 and entitled Gedanken vom Gelde. It showed Zinzendorf’s interpretation of Law’s ideas and why he thought that more than 50 years later they were still relevant to German readers. Zinzendorf’s book was heavily footnoted and followed the typical pattern of eighteenth-century translations. In Gedanken vom Gelde, Zinzendorf brought Law’s thinking up to date by adding arguments from Montesquieu, from the French writers of Gournay’s circle and from the German debates on monetary matters and currency manipulations of the early 1750s.

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  • Simon Adler, 2020. "The German Translation of Law’s Money and Trade, 1758," Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance, in: Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy 1750–1774, chapter 0, pages 95-134, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:psitcp:978-3-030-31007-3_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-31007-3_4
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