The academy of fisticuffs : political economy and commercial society in Enlightenment Italy /

The terms "capitalism" and "socialism" continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the eighteenth century had its "socialists," but unlike those of the nineteenth, they paradoxically sought t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Reinert, Sophus A. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Accademia dei Pugni. Verri, Pietro, > 1728-1797. Beccaria, Cesare, > marchese di, > 1738-1794. Enlightenment > Italy > Lombardy. Socialism > Italy > Lombardy > History > 18th century. Lombardy (Italy) > Economic conditions > 18th century. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Lupi sacri
Hard knocks cafe
Capital (and) punishment
Cycloid pudding
Achtung! Banditi!
Enlightenment socialisms
The threshold of Utopia
Arches and stones.