SONNENFELS, (JOSEPH VON). (3). Grundsätze der Polizey, Handlung, und Finanz:... Zu den Leitfaden des politischen Studiums. Fünfte, vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage. Wien (bey Joseph Edlen von Kurzbeck) 1787. Small 8:o. 3 titles with engraved vignette (title to vol. I with hole and paper thinning). Later (mid- 19th century) green half cloth. Minor foxing. Old annotations on first endpapers regarding contents of the books. 3 volumes. Kress B. 1131. First published in Vienna in 1765-69 in 2 volumes with different title (Kress 6297). Joseph von Sonnenfels (1733-1817), Austrian Political Economist. Baron Joseph von Sonnenfels was a major figure of the Austro-Hungarian cameralist school of economics, an influential author and professor, and advisor to Empress Maria-Teresa and to some extent to her son Emperor Joseph II. A thorough-going child of the rationalist Enlightenment, he is known for taking progressive measures such as advancing journalism, promoting scholarship in the German vernacular, holding free public lectures, liberalizing Vienna's business life, supporting the theater and other arts, and -- as is often noted -- for persuading the Empress to abolish torture in ordinary criminal procedures. Although he is generally classified as an economist, his book, like most cameralist treatises, covered a wide range of other administrative, political, and social topics. Sonnenfels believed that the highest ethical principle of the state was to aid the common welfare and to protect its citizens. One of his basic beliefs was that the state should promote the maximum population that it could employ. Consequently he favored the elimination of labor dues by peasants to their lords and the division of large estates into small peasant holdings. He also believed in market competition, striving for an equilibrium between money and goods, and government encouragement of exports and restrictions on imports. He opposed monopolies and guilds because they restricted employment opportunities. Although progressive in many ways for his day, Sonnenfels contributed to the separate development of economic thought in Germany and Austria, where cameralist theories continued to be influential throughout the nineteenth century, but prevented the more liberal free-market ideas prevalent in France and England from taking hold. (The 18th Century Online Encyclopedia). Provenance: The von Celsing family, Biby.
SONNENFELS, (JOSEPH VON). (3). Grundsätze der Polizey, Handlung, und Finanz:... Zu den Leitfaden des politischen Studiums. Fünfte, vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage. Wien (bey Joseph Edlen von Kurzbeck) 1787. Small 8:o. 3 titles with engraved vignette (title to vol. I with hole and paper thinning). Later (mid- 19th century) green half cloth. Minor foxing. Old annotations on first endpapers regarding contents of the books. 3 volumes. Kress B. 1131. First published in Vienna in 1765-69 in 2 volumes with different title (Kress 6297). Joseph von Sonnenfels (1733-1817), Austrian Political Economist. Baron Joseph von Sonnenfels was a major figure of the Austro-Hungarian cameralist school of economics, an influential author and professor, and advisor to Empress Maria-Teresa and to some extent to her son Emperor Joseph II. A thorough-going child of the rationalist Enlightenment, he is known for taking progressive measures such as advancing journalism, promoting scholarship in the German vernacular, holding free public lectures, liberalizing Vienna's business life, supporting the theater and other arts, and -- as is often noted -- for persuading the Empress to abolish torture in ordinary criminal procedures. Although he is generally classified as an economist, his book, like most cameralist treatises, covered a wide range of other administrative, political, and social topics. Sonnenfels believed that the highest ethical principle of the state was to aid the common welfare and to protect its citizens. One of his basic beliefs was that the state should promote the maximum population that it could employ. Consequently he favored the elimination of labor dues by peasants to their lords and the division of large estates into small peasant holdings. He also believed in market competition, striving for an equilibrium between money and goods, and government encouragement of exports and restrictions on imports. He opposed monopolies and guilds because they restricted employment opportunities. Although progressive in many ways for his day, Sonnenfels contributed to the separate development of economic thought in Germany and Austria, where cameralist theories continued to be influential throughout the nineteenth century, but prevented the more liberal free-market ideas prevalent in France and England from taking hold. (The 18th Century Online Encyclopedia). Provenance: The von Celsing family, Biby.
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