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Ferdinando Galiani

Ferdinando Galiani


Birth	2 December 1728 Chieti
Deaths	30 October 1787 (59 years) Naples
Nationality	Italy
Occupation (s)	Economist

Ferdinando Galiani, "said Abbe Galiani, born in Chieti on 2 December 1728 and died in Naples on 30 October 1787 , is an economist Italian.

His uncle ^Monsignor Celestino Galiani, one of the most influential men of the kingdom of Naples and whose house, Casa Galiani, was the intellectual center of the third largest European city at the time, he delivered a careful education in Naples and to Rome , to enter the Church. Early on, Ferdinando Galiani shows provisions for the economy and stands out for its great spirit. At the age of sixteen, he was received by the Accademia degli Emule. At the age of twenty-two years after entering orders after which he will be known as "Abbe Galiani, he produced two works whose fame extends far beyond Naples. In the first, entitled Trattato della moneta (Treaty of money), now considered a classic Italian, the work fits into the discussion of major economic principles of the time, the theory of value and politics Money also deals with many aspects of the issue of trade, but always with a special reference to the confusion that characterized the entire monetary system of the Neapolitan government. The second, in Raccolta del Boia Dead (Reports of deaths of the executioner), which cemented his reputation as a satirist , has enjoyed huge popularity in literary circles in Italy from the late eighteenth ^century. Galiani to parody , in a series of speeches on the death of the executioner, the Neapolitan style of the authors of the time.

Political knowledge and social qualities Galiani point out of King Charles IV of Naples and his Liberal cabinet minister Tanucci ( 1698 - one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three ) who called in 1755 at the Academy of Herculaneum with the task of directing the work of excavation in Herculaneum and ancient describe their discoveries.

Appointed secretary to the embassy at Naples Paris in 1759 , he received a warm welcome and began to frequent the salons where he met the Encyclopedists , and especially of Diderot , with whom he will befriend. Beyond the common interests of these two intellectuals of the Enlightenment to fields as diverse as literature , the philosophy , the arts or sciences , Galiani, Diderot to introduce the policy and the economy at a critical stage in the evolution of his philosophical thought. After ten years spent in Paris as secretary to the embassy, he returned to Naples where he became an adviser to the tribunal of commerce and then in 1777 , minister of the royal estates.

His reputation as an economist has been built on his Dialogues on trade in corn , a book written from 1768 in French language and published semi-clandestinely in 1770 (the title page "London," but the publisher was Merlin, Paris). Light and pleasant style and the liveliness of the spirit of this book has delighted Voltaire who described it as a cross between Plato and Molire. "The author says Pecchio, has treated his subject as arid Fontenelle did vortices of Descartes or Algarotti system Newtonian world. "

Dialogues addressed the issue, very agitated at the time, freedom of trade in wheat and, in particular, the royal edict of 1764 allowing the export of grain if the price reaches a certain threshold. It retains the general principle that the best system for this trade is to have no system, requiring each country, according to him, different modes of treatment depending on circumstances. He even defend some of the most questionable position of mercantilist - such as Voltaire and Pietro Verri who considered that a country can get rich at the expense of another - up to defend the treaty in its first devaluation of the currency by governments.

Became famous, he was in correspondence with many European princes which Frederick II. He also maintained a correspondence until his death with friends of his Paris period, which was published in 1818. Marmontel said of him: "The Abbe Galiani himself was the prettiest little harlequin What would the product Italy, but on the shoulders of the Harlequin, was the head of Machiavelli. "

Works

Mint (1751), Paris, Librairie M. Riviere, 1955
Dialogues on trade in corn, Paris, Fayard, 1984 ISBN 978-2-213-01479-1
The art of preserving grain, Paris, 1770
De la Monnaie, Paris, Economica, 2005 ISBN 978-2-7178-4998-1

Correspondence

Ferdinando Galiani and Louise d'Epinay, Correspondence I, 1769-1770, Paris, Desjonqures, 1992 ISBN 978-2-904227-61-5
Ferdinando Galiani and Louise d'Epinay, Correspondence. II, 1771-February 1772, Paris, Desjonqures, 1993
Ferdinando Galiani and Louise d'Epinay, Correspondence. III, March 1772-May 1773, Paris, Desjonqures, 1994
Ferdinando Galiani and Louise d'Epinay, Correspondence. IV. June 1773-May 1775, Paris, Desjonqures, 1996
Ferdinando Galiani, Louise d'Epinay, Correspondence. V, June 1775-July 1782, Paris, Desjonqures, 1997
Ferdinando Galiani, Louise d'Epinay, storytellers In the sixteenth ^century: "Stories that do not say a word. "I. Rabelais. II. Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549). Paul Valry; symbolism to classicism. A citizen of Cosmopolis in the eighteenth ^century: Abb Galiani and correspondence, Paris, Documentation Centre University, 1961
Ferdinando Galiani, Louise d'Epinay, Lettres de l'Abb Galiani to Madame d'Epinay, Voltaire, Diderot, Grimm , Baron d ' Holbach , Morellet , Suard , D'Alembert , Marmontel, the Viscountess of Belsunce, etc.. : Published by the original editions, plus variants, extensive notes and an index with biographies, Paris, G. Charpentier, 1881

Bibliography

Philosophical and literary pamphlets, most posthumous and unpublished , Paris, Bedside, 1796.
Ferdinand Brunetiere , Critical Studies on the history of French literature. Galiani Paris, Libr. Hachette, 1905-1911
Loc Charles, Abb Ferdinando Galiani and trade of wheat, Paris, 1993
Rosena Davison, Diderot and Galiani: study of a philosophical friendship, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institution, 1985
Regis Deloche, besides a bicentennial: Galiani and fable, Besanon, University of Franche-Comte, 1987
Denis Diderot , Apologies: Apology of the Abbe Galiani & apologetic letter to the Abbe Raynal M. Grimm, Barrillon Michel, Marseille, Agone , 1998
E. Daire, Mixtures of Political Economy: preceded by historical notes on each author, and accompanied by explanatory notes and comments, Geneva, Paris, Slatkine, 1984
Edward Design, Galiani and the question of the currency in the eighteenth ^century, Langres, Champagne Printing, 1902
Eugene Gaudemet , Abb Galiani and the issue of trade in wheat at the end of the reign of Louis XV, Paris, A. Rousseau, 1899, New York, B. Franklin 1972
Emile Morand, psychological theory of value until 1776, Bordeaux, Impr. University, 1912
Jacques Necker , On the law and the grain trade. Galiani, Paris, Guillaumin, 1848
Andr Morellet , Refutation of the book which is entitled Dialogues on Trade in corn, London, [sn], 1975, 1770
Sainte-Beuve , Originals and Fine Spirits: Portraits of references from Literary and Lectures Monday, Paris, France, Garnier Brothers, 1885