LAWS 4304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Police Science, Cameralism, Joseph Von Sonnenfels

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Law
• Course: LAWS 4304
• Professor: George Rigakos

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Defining cameralism & mercantilism: camera = chamber; room; private session, cameralism: refers to the (cid:272)ha(cid:373)(cid:271)er of ad(cid:448)isors to the (cid:373)o(cid:374)ar(cid:272)hy (cid:894)(cid:862)(cid:272)a(cid:373)eral(cid:863) refers to a private session) Lecture 2 origins of police science: need a police system to enforce this, medieval germany only worked ~60 days/year. Mercantilism & cameralism economy in the service of the state. Liberalism state serves the economy: #53-56 (p. 60) . Internal (p. 107) basic organization; self-defence; primal/social structures strength in numbers; satiate wants and needs. If you(cid:859)re for(cid:272)i(cid:374)g people to produ(cid:272)e do(cid:373)esti(cid:272)ally, you(cid:859)re (cid:272)reati(cid:374)g (cid:374)e(cid:449) opportunities for entrepreneurs: contemporary capitalism is fine with external trade & commerce/outsourcing but the early days of capitalism disagreed completely. It(cid:859)s a fu(cid:374)da(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal reality that the syste(cid:373) justi a(cid:374)d o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:374)fels are fighti(cid:374)g for is actually inefficient for capitalism (cid:271)ut it(cid:859)s good for the state: reduce wants, (cid:862)da(cid:374)gerous people(cid:863) policed. Justi and sonnenfels argued against the death penalty b/c that would be one less person doing labor (loss of revenue)