Readings
H. M. Scott, Reform in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1740-1790”, in H. M. Scott (ed.), Enlightened Absolutism. Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe (London: Macmillan, 1990), 145-188.
Further readings (optional)
Charles W. Ingrao, “Discovering the People: The Triumph of Cameralism and Enlightened Absolutism 1765-1792,” in The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815, 2nd ed, New Approaches to European History 21 (Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 178–219.
Derek Beales, "Joseph II and the monasteries of Austria and Hungary". In: Religious Change in Europe 1650-1914: Essays for John MacManners. Ed. Nigel Aston, Clarendon Press, 1997.
Grete Klingenstein, “Between Mercantilism and Physiocracy. Stages, Modes and Functions of Economic Theory in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1748-63”, in Charles W. Ingrao (ed.), State and Society in Early Modern Austria (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1994), 181-214.