Bad cameralists and disordered police states
Science and silver for the Kammer
The knowledge factory
The cameralist and the ironworks
Useless sciences, fashionable sciences
Conclusion : don't believe everything you read
Appendix 1: Average annual silver production in Central Europe, 1545-1800
Appendix 2: Acquisition history of selected mining books in Göttingen
Appendix 3: Friedrich Casimir Medicus's unpublished proposal for a Faculty of state administration at the University of Ingolstadt.
The disordered police state : German cameralism as science and practice by Andre Wakefield. ISBN 9780226870205. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.