Workshop organized in the 400th anniversary of
the Traicté de l’oeconomie politique complete edition
University of Salento, Lecce – Italy, April 27th, 2016
Montchrestien (or Montchrétien) criticised Xenophon and Aristotle for confining the economy in the private sphere of the household. Economy is also political, he stated, and must be devoted to the increase of production and wealth. Then he first introduced the expression “Political Economy” not by chance – as most historians still believe – but as a cultural programme for the new economy.
Speakers
François Billacois, “Montchrestien économiste baroque” (video intervention)
Marc Laudet, “Un éclairage biographique du Traicté de l’économie politique”
Nicola Panichi, “L’utile e l’onesto. Per una filosofia dell’economia politica nel Traicté”
Bertram Schefold, “L’economia politica nell’Oeconomica pseudo-aristotelica e il cameralista tedesco Klock”
Gianfranco Brazzini, “Ancora sul significato dell’oeconomie politique in Montchrétien”
André Tiran, “A. de Montchrétien, T. Mun, A. Serra, trois approches de la politique économique: points communs et differences”
Claudia Sunna, “Montchrétien and development economics”
Rosario Patalano, “Nation-World: Autarky and Geo-economics in Montchrestien’s Traicté”
Cosimo Perrotta, “Montchrétien founder of Political Economy”
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The workshop is organized by Vitantonio Gioia, Claudia Sunna, Cosimo Perrotta.
For further information, please write to cosimoperrotta@gmail.com.
Mario Cedrini