cameralistic

[ kam-er-uh-lis-tik, kam-ruh- ]

adjective

1. of or relating to public finance.
2. of or relating to cameralism.

noun

1. cameralistics, (usually used with a singular verb) the science of public finance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cameralistic¹

1755–65; < German kameralistisch, equivalent to Kameralist cameralist + -isch -ish ¹ (replaced by -ic )

Example Sentences

The interest of absolute princes must have greatly favored these cameralistic institutions, for they were in their hands docile tools, which escaped the annoying intervention of the states of their realms.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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However, Political Economy in Germany developed out of the science of law and the cameralistic sciences, while in England and Italy it had its origin chiefly in the study of questions of finance and foreign commerce.

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If we abstract from cameralistic science as it was understood in the last century, what it has in common with all economy,150 and therefore with public economy, next that which belongs to the aggregate of governmental economy, there remains only a number of rules, such as those which govern the principal branches of private business, and which indicate how they are to be carried on with the greatest advantage to those who engage in them.

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The political economists also require a knowledge of the natural side of the cameralistic sciences.

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