ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author first revisits some of the basic elements of the first wave of reception, up to the end of the previous century, then takes a closer look at the bibliographic- and metrics-based evidence for the influence of Merchant’s work in Scandinavia. The author also takes the analysis forward up to the present, focusing in particular on the integrative turn of the humanities for which her work stands out as an early, inspiring template. The author attempts to provide evidence and experience from all three countries—Denmark, Norway, and Sweden—but with a particular emphasis on the latter given its size and, admittedly, because of my own background. The political arithmetic portrayed nature in this powerful Baltic nation as well-endowed and a divinely privileged repository of people (labor power), plants, and animals, presented in an unusually articulated form in the patriotic economic botany of Linnaeus.
