Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government

Sophus Reinert, Rosario Patalano, Sophus Reinert, Rosario Patalano

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781137539953
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137539960
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic History
• Index: Economics

In this book some of the world's leading economists and experts on Serra explore the enduring appeal of his 1613 Breve trattato.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government
• 1 The Place of Naples in the 17th-Century Spanish Empire
• 2 The Vicaria Prison of Naples in the Time of Antonio Serra
• 3 The Cost of Empires: Antonio Serra and the Debate on the Causes and Solutions of Economic Crises in the Viceroyalty of Naples in the 17th Century
• 4 Serra’s Brief Treatise in a World-System Perspective: The Dutch Miracle and Italian Decline in the Early 17th Century
• 5 The Influence of Portuguese Economic Thought on the Breve trattato : Antonio Serra and Miguel Vaaz in Spanish Naples
• 6 Authority and Expertise at the Origins of Macro-economics
• 7 The Republic of Wealth and Liberty: The Politics of Antonio Serra
• 8 External Imbalances and the Money Supply: Two Controversies in the English “Realme” and in the Kingdom of Naples
• 9 Real and Monetary Factors in the de Santis–Serra Controversy
• 10 Serra and Underdevelopment
• 11 “To Console and Alleviate the Human Mind”: Ferdinando Galiani’s Attempted Republication of Serra in the 1750s
• 12 Francesco Saverio Salfi and the Eulogy for Antonio Serra: Politics, Freemasonry, and the Consumption of Culture in the Early 19th Century
• 13 Serra’s Discovery and Ill Fate in the Liberal 19th Century
• 14 The Heritage of Antonio Serra
• 15 Serra’s Breve trattato and the Theory of Economic Development
• 16 Antonio Serra and the Problems of Today
• Index