Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A financier; one skilled in the principles and system of public revenue.
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- noun A public administrative servant of continental rulers of the 17th and 18th centuries who was a mercantilist and advocated economic policies tending to strengthen the position of the ruler.
- noun economics An economist who strongly emphasizes political factors in recommending economic policy.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Germany, a leading cameralist writer of the day, J.H. G. Justi published in Berlin in 1762 Vergleichungen der europäischen mit den asiatischen und andern vermeintlich barbarischen
Dictionary of the History of Ideas DONALD F. LACH 1968
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After such men as Morhof and Thomasius had prepared the way, (148) Frederick William I., himself a clever cameralist, and author of the masterly financial system of Prussia, took the important step of founding, at Halle and Frankfurt on the Oder, special chairs of economy and cameralistic science; which, considering the time, were very ably filled by Gasser and Dithmar.
System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855
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The great difference lies in this, that the cameralist interests himself in the production of material goods for their own sake, while the political economist regards them only in their relations to national life. (
System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855
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