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In his new book, Simon Adler (Honorary Associate, Austrian Academy of Sciences) builds on his thesis, tracing an unknown case and joining the ongoing discussion by exploring the intellectual progress of the prolific but rather unknown financial expert Ludwig Zinzendorf. Thus, the book's final judgment is ambiguous because it favors Zinzendorf as the most advanced economist, whose expertise was beyond the proficiency of contemporary cameralists and any other experts in the monarchy. In many respects, the way in which Adler frames Zinzendorf's contribution, while seeking to investigate an unexplored segment of the history of German economic thought, confronts the conventional interpretations of political economy. [Extracted from the article]