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Luxury and Public Happiness - Political Economy in the Italian Enlightenment (Hardcover, New)
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Luxury and Public Happiness - Political Economy in the Italian Enlightenment (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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This work charts the development of political economy in
eighteenth-century Italy, and it argues that the focus on economic
thought is characteristic of the Italian enlightenment at large.
Through an analysis of the debate about luxury, it traces the
shaping of a new language of political economy which was inspired
by, and contributed to, European debate, but which offered
solutions that were as much shaped by intellectual traditions and
socio-economic circumstances as by French or Scottish precedent.
Ultimately, those traditions were responsible for the development
of very distinct 'cultures of enlightenment' across the peninsula
-from the insertion of the economy into the edifice of enlightened
Catholicism, to the development of physiocracy in Tuscany, to a new
analytical approach to economics in the Milanese enlightenment.
Wahnbaeck draws on treatises, academic debates, university
lectures, sermons, letters, dictionaries and personal sketches to
trace the development of a public culture in Italy in the middle of
the century, to establish the channels for the transmission of
ideas between Italy, France and Scotland, and the development of an
analytical language of economy in Milan in the second half of the
century. This work relates those developments to the socio-economic
and political contexts in which they occurred and argues that the
focus on the economy (especially in northern Italy) can be
explained by a triple reason: against the background of a declining
economy and a shift towards agriculture in a competitive European
environment, economic thought addressed the region's most pressing
needs; secondly, subjection to Habsburg rule meant that political
reform was monopolized in Vienna, whereas economic policy was an
area of developed government and hence offered a safe route to
influence without infringing on Hapsburg prerogatives; and finally,
advances in economic thinking in Milan in particular provided a
claim to power against the previous generation which had dominated
the field of jurisprudence.
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