to cultivate foreign cash crops such as tea and the Mulberry tree, on the leaves of which the silk worm feeds, and to find domestic substitute for imports such as coffee, projects that even though they were failures entrenched the role of the scientist and the expert as a useful instrument of state interests. Notes References Further reading Albion Small (1909), The Cameralists. The Pioneers of German Social Policy, Chicago: The University of Chicago Andre Wakefield (2009), The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice J. Christiaens & J. Rommel, 2006. "Governmental Accounting Reforms: Going Back Where We Belong?," Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium 06/398, Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. External links Economic history of Germany Mercantilism Schools of economic thought