Austria Supreme (if it so Wishes) (1684): 'A Strategy for European Economic Supremacy'

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Philipp Wilhelm von Hoernigk's text Austria Above All if Only She Wills So (working translation) deserves to be called an all-time classic. It was the most widely read economic treatise in Europe before Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations', containing, in a nutshell, the essential ingredients of economic strategy that would make Austria and Europe grow rich and eventually overtake the rest of the world as the first world region that experienced an industrial revolution.

Philipp Robinson Roessner is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in early modern history at the University of Manchester, UK. Trained as an economic historian at the University of Goettingen, Germany, where he did his MA in 2003, he moved to the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he did his PhD. Between 2007 and 2012 Roessner worked as a lecturer in social and economic history at the University of Leipzig, Germany, where he obtained a senior doctorate in social and economic history.