Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy 1750–1774: The Contribution of Ludwig Zinzendorf (Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance)

Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations and Conventions
	Abbreviations
	Conventions
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Zinzendorf with Kaunitz in France, 1750–1752
	Zinzendorf and Kaunitz
	Travels in Brittany
		The French Navy and the French Trade Company
	The ‘Mémoire’ on the French Economy
Chapter 3: French Intellectual Influence: Melon and Gournay
	‘Essai sur l’Établissement d’une Banque Générale des États’
	The Importance of Melon’s Essai Politique
	Jacques Vincent de Gournay
Chapter 4: The German Translation of Law’s Money and Trade, 1758
	Qualities of Money
	Trade and Money
	Banks
	Currency Variations
	The Disadvantages of Silver Money and Advantages of Land
	Law’s Proposal to Issue Paper Money
	Bringing Law’s Thinking up to Date
Chapter 5: The Development of Zinzendorf’s Thinking on State Credit
	Better Credit for War Finance
	The Vienna City Bank
	The Survey of European Banks
		Banks for the Expansion of Commerce
		Banks for the Increase in the Supply of Money
		Political Banks
	Intellectual Stock-Taking: A Stock Exchange and Political Bank for the Habsburg Monarchy
	The Significance of Zinzendorf’s Writings
Chapter 6: The Financial Expert of the Habsburg Monarchy
	Zinzendorf’s Formation
	The Circle Around Zinzendorf
	Projectors
	Debates Within Government
		Debates over Institutional Reform
		The Institutions for Commercial Affairs
		Zinzendorf’s Role in Institutional Change
		Zinzendorf’s Wider Role in Debates Within Central Government
		Comparison with the Bureau du Commerce
	The Public Sphere
	Zinzendorf’s Different Kind of Economic Discussion
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Bibliography
	Manuscripts
	Saint-Brieuc
	St. Pölten
	Vienna
	Published Primary Works
	Published Secondary Works
	Dissertations
Index