Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government....Pages 1-11
The Place of Naples in the 17th-Century Spanish Empire....Pages 12-22
The Vicaria Prison of Naples in the Time of Antonio Serra....Pages 23-37
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....Pages 38-62
Serra’s Brief Treatise in a World-System Perspective: The Dutch Miracle and Italian Decline in the Early 17th Century....Pages 63-88
The Influence of Portuguese Economic Thought on the Breve trattato: Antonio Serra and Miguel Vaaz in Spanish Naples....Pages 89-111
Authority and Expertise at the Origins of Macro-economics....Pages 112-142
The Republic of Wealth and Liberty: The Politics of Antonio Serra....Pages 143-165
External Imbalances and the Money Supply: Two Controversies in the English “Realme” and in the Kingdom of Naples....Pages 166-190
Real and Monetary Factors in the de Santis-Serra Controversy....Pages 191-213
Serra and Underdevelopment....Pages 214-233
“To Console and Alleviate the Human Mind”: Ferdinando Galiani’s Attempted Republication of Serra in the 1750s....Pages 234-262
Francesco Saverio Salfi and the Eulogy for Antonio Serra: Politics, Freemasonry, and the Consumption of Culture in the Early 19th Century....Pages 263-280
Serra’s Discovery and Ill Fate in the Liberal 19th Century....Pages 281-298
The Heritage of Antonio Serra....Pages 299-314
Serra’s Breve trattato and the Theory of Economic Development....Pages 315-324
Antonio Serra and the Problems of Today....Pages 325-361
Back Matter....Pages 363-374