Historians have traditionally used the discourses of free trade and laissez faire to explain the development of political economy during the Enlightenment. But from Sophus Reinert's perspective, eighteenth-century political economy can be understood only in the context of the often brutal imperial rivalries then unfolding in Europe and its former colonies and the positive consequences of active economic policy. The idea of economic emulation was the prism through which philosophers, ministers, reformers, and even merchants thought about economics, as well as industrial policy and...
Historians have traditionally used the discourses of free trade and laissez faire to explain the development of political economy during the...
Written by one of Italy's leading historians, this book analyses the context and legacy of Gaetano Filangieri's seven-volume Science of Legislation. The study engages with the unique history of Enlightenment Naples, the intellectual traditions upon which Filangieri drew, and the powerful repercussions of the American Revolution in eighteenth-century Italy to re-draw the map of Enlightenment republicanism and the early history of human rights and their political economy.
Particularly, the book elucidates Montesquieu's polyvalent influence on the development of Enlightenment political...
Written by one of Italy's leading historians, this book analyses the context and legacy of Gaetano Filangieri's seven-volume Science of Legislation...
When Istvan Hont died in 2013 the world lost a giant of intellectual history. Markets, Morals, Politics brings together a celebrated cast of Hont's contemporaries to explore his influence, ideas, and methods a work of interpretation that does justice to Hont's influence while developing its own provocative, illuminating arguments.
When Istvan Hont died in 2013 the world lost a giant of intellectual history. Markets, Morals, Politics brings together a celebrated cast of Hont's co...
The Italian Enlightenment, no less than the Scottish, was central to the emergence of political economy and creation of market societies. Sophus Reinert turns to Milan in the late 1700s to recover early socialists' preoccupations with the often lethal tension among states, markets, and human welfare, and the policies these ideas informed.
The Italian Enlightenment, no less than the Scottish, was central to the emergence of political economy and creation of market societies. Sophus Reine...
