"Love drives and gives life to the commerce of mankind." Thus, the sixteen year old Ferdinando Galiani (1728-1787) presented his project to understand the sociable nature of man. This observation, a reflection of his own position on the relation between trade and virtue, hinted at what the mature works of Galiani, one of the most noteworthy economists and wits in eighteenth-century Italy, would eventually yield.
In Love, Self-Deceit, and Money, Koen Stapelbroek reconstructs the Early Neapolitan Enlightenment debate on the morality of market societies, a debate that hinged on the...
"Love drives and gives life to the commerce of mankind." Thus, the sixteen year old Ferdinando Galiani (1728-1787) presented his project to underst...
This collection of essays explores the emergence of economic societies in the British Isles and their development into a European, American and global reform movement in the eighteenth century. Its fourteen contributions demonstrate the intellectual horizons and international networks of this widespread and influential phenomenon.
This collection of essays explores the emergence of economic societies in the British Isles and their development into a European, American and global...
Analysing bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time, this book focuses on treaties as an index of the challenges of 18th-century European politics, shaping a new understanding of these challenges and of how they were confronted at the time in theory and diplomatic practice.
Analysing bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time, this book focuses on treaties as an index of th...
