Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government

Rosario Patalano is Professor of the History of Economic Thought at the University of Naples 'Federico II'.Sophus A. Reinert is Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School.

• Introduction: Rosario Patalano and Sophus A. Reinert1. The Place of Naples in the Seventeenth-century Spanish Empire: Gabriel Paquette2. The Vicaria Prison of Naples in the time of Antonio Serra: Francesca De Rosa3. The Cost of Empires: Antonio Serra and the Debate on the Causes and Solutions of Economic Crises in the Viceroyalty of Naples in the Seventeenth Century: Giovanni Zanalda4. Serra's Brief Treatise in a World-System Perspective: The Dutch Miracle and Italian Decadence in the Early 17th Century: Rosario Patalano5. The Influence of Portuguese Economic Thought on the Breve trattato:Antonio Serra and Miguel Vaaz in Spanish Naples: Gaetano Sabatini6. Authority and Expertise at the Origins of Macroeconomics: Sophus A. Reinert7. The Republic of Liberties and Wealth: The Politics of Antonio Serra: Luca Addante8. External imbalances and the money supply: Two controversies in the English 'Realme' and in the Kingdom of Naples: Lilia Costabile9. Real and Monetary Factors in the de Santis-Serra Controversy: André Tiran10. Serra and underdevelopment: Cosimo Perrotta11. 'To console and alleviate the human mind': Ferdinando Galiani's attempted re-publication of Serra in the 1750s: Koen Stapelbroek12. Francesco Saverio Salfi and the eulogy for Antonio Serra: Politics, Freemasonry and the consumption of Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century: Antonio Trampus13. Serra's Discovery and Ill Fate in the Liberal Nineteenth Century:Francesco di Battista14. The Heritage of Antonio Serra: Alessandro Roncaglia15. Serra's Breve Trattato and the Financial and Monetary Aspects of Economic Development: Jan Kregel16. Antonio Serra and the Problems of Today: Erik S. ReinertIndex