[H-verkko] Helsinki, Wealth and Freedom: The Swedish ‘Age of Liberty’ and European Eighteenth-Century Political Thought Reconsidered

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Wealth and Freedom: The Swedish ‘Age of Liberty’ and European
Eighteenth-Century Political Thought Reconsidered
Helsinki 14.12.2011 klo 17:00 - 15.12.2011 

14 December, 17:00-19:30 (Common Room of the Helsinki Collegium for
Advanced Studies, 3rd floor of Fabianinkatu 24)

Book presentation by Antonella Alimento, Matti Klinge and Koen
Stapelbroek, of:

Eds. Maren Jonasson, Pertti Hyttinen, Intr. Lars Magnusson,
Anticipating The Wealth of Nations: The Selected Works of Anders
Chydenius, 1729-1803 (London: Routledge, 2011),

and

Eds. Pasi Ihalainen, Michael Bregnsbo, Karin Sennefelt, Patrik
Winton, Scandinavia in the Age of Revolution. Nordic Political
Cultures, 1740–1820 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011).


15 December (Monrepos Room, National Library, Unioninkatu 36)

(9:10-9:30) Welcome – Koen Stapelbroek

(9:30-10:15) Jouko Nurmiainen – The Imported Secrets of Commerce:
Bachmansson’s Swedish Arcana as an English-Inspired Economic History
Comments: Kari Saastamoinen

(10:15-11:00) Ere Nokkala – Peter Forsskål and German Political
Economy: Freedom as a Precondition for Wealth
Comments: Tom Hopkins

COFFEE (11:00-11:30)

(11:30-12:15) Charlotta Wolff – Carl Fredrik Scheffer’s evolving
views on the Swedish constitution
Comments: Antonella Alimento

LUNCH (12:15-13:30)

(13:30-14:15) Patrik Winton – The political economy of government
borrowing in Sweden, 1760-1772
Comments: Lars Magnusson

(14:15-15:00) Koen Stapelbroek – The Kryger-Scheffer debate in 1755
and the structure of Swedish eighteenth-century political economic
debate
Comments: Matti Klinge

COFFEE (15:00-15:30)
(15:30-16:15) Jesper Meijling - The porto franco and its political
theory: Swedish economic development and Johan Liljencrants’ European
travel reports (1758-1761)
Comments: Antonella Alimento

(16:15-17:00) ROUNDTABLE

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Comments and interventions by invited participants

Please register your participation by e-mail to Jani Marjanen
(jani.marjanen at helsinki.fi)

The colloquium is hosted by the Centre for Nordic Studies in
cooperation with the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and the
National Library of Finland


Ilmoitus lähetetty: 1.12.2011 18:25

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