Delle Lezioni di Commercio o sia d’Economia Civile (1767)

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Antonio Genovesi held the first chair of political economy ever founded, endowed at Naples in 1754. These Lezioni, delivered from that chair, set out an economics inseparable from civil life — trade, money, population and public happiness treated together as questions of the common good. They founded the Neapolitan tradition of economia civile and were read across eighteenth-century Europe.This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1767 edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.