Luxury and public happiness political economy in the Italian Enlightenment / [electronic resource] :
Till Wahnbaeck.
- Oxford : Clarendon, 2004.
- 1 online resource (x, 228 p.).
- Oxford historical monographs .
- Oxford historical monographs. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This work charts the development of political economy in 18th-century Italy, arguing that the focus on economic thought is characteristic of the Italian Enlightenment at large. Through an analysis of the debate about luxury, it traces the shaping of a new language of political economy.