ABSTRACT
The book consists of eleven of the most important writings of Anders Chydenius, an eighteenth century pioneer of freedom and democracy. Thematically they touch upon subject areas such as the freedom of trade and industry, emigration, the monetary system of the Swedish realm in the eighteenth century, the freedom of the press (or as Chydenius said: the freedom of writing and printing), the freedom of information, the rights of the rural working class and the freedom of religion. The book also includes a comprehensive biography of Chydenius written by Lars Magnusson together with commentaries and explanatory notes to each text.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|156 pages
The tumultuous Diet of 1765–6
chapter 1|58 pages
Answer to the Question Prescribed by the Royal Academy of Sciences
part II|34 pages
Pioneering freedom of information
chapter 6|7 pages
Report on the freedom of writing and printing
chapter 7|12 pages
Additional report on the freedom of printing
part III|77 pages
Radical rector of Kokkola
chapter 8|24 pages
Answer to the Question Posed by the Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg
part IV|24 pages
Autobiography of Anders Chydenius