Commerce and Morality in the Early Neapolitan Enlightenment
by
Koen Stapelbroek
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2008
"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...