Seminar "Baroque and Early Political Economy: Some Analogies"
Danila Raskov (University of Helsinki, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies) presented the paper "Baroque and Early Political Economy: Some Analogies" on March 14, 2024.
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Abstract:
Baroque as a style in architecture, painting, music and literature and as a cultural-historical era has analogies with the history of early political economy, and in a narrower sense with mercantilism and cameralism. We suggest that the use of the term "baroque" in the intellectual history of economic thought allows us to better understand both the body of work and the figures of such cameralists as I. I. Becher (1625-1685) and J. G. G. von Justi (1717-1771). The imposition of two "labels" - baroque and cameralism - will allow us to better understand the personalities, productivity and simultaneous work in the field of management and finance, law and police, philosophy and natural sciences, landscaping and the organization of metallurgy with the help of phlogiston and alchemy.
The full text of the article is available on the journal "Versus" website.