Physiocracy, Antiphysiocracy and Pfeiffer

Jürgen G. Backhaus (*1950), JSD 1976, PhD (Econ) 1985, holds the Krupp Chair in Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology at Erfurt University since November 2000. Between 1986 and 2000, he has held the chair in Public Economics at Maastricht University. In September 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Thessaly (Greece). He has published 60 books and monographs, about 200 articles in refereed journals and book chapters, 28 scholarly notes and 63 reviews. His research interests span economics, but also neighbouring disciplines such as law, fiscal sociology and environmental sciences. In 1994 he founded (with Frank H. Stephen) the European Journal of Law and Economics, of which he is the managing editor.

• Introduction - The Point of Physiocracy and its Anti-Thesis.- “Schauplatz der Künste und Handwerke” and the Translation of Economics Books at the Time of Justi and Pfeiffer.- Johann August Schlettwein: The German Physiocrat.- Rationality in Physiocratic Thought.- Cameralism and Physiocracy as the two sides of a coin – the example of the economic policy of Johann Friedrich von Pfeiffer.- Physiocrats and Laws of Population.- The Technological Dynamics of Capitalism: Colbertism, Cameralism and Antiphysiocracy meet Schumpeter.- On the Reception of Physiocratic Thought in German History of Economics.- Mature Cameralism according to Pfeiffer.- Economic Espionage and the Grand Tour: The Emulation of Tuscan Antiphysiocracy in the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway.- Pfeiffer and the Foundation of the Science of Forestry.- Establishing sustainability theory within classical forest science – the role of cameralism and classical political economy.