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Division of Labour and Economic Growth: Paul Romer's Contribution in an Historical Perspective
2003
Adam Smith and The Law
2013
The law is one of the main subjects in Adam Smith’s studies. He deals with it in the Lectures of Jurisprudence (LJ) and in the Wealth of the Nations (WN) and his ethical and philosophical premises are exposed in the Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS). This interest in law is consistent with enlightenment culture which aspired to elaborate a great Science of Legislation in order to have enough knowledge to reform society and replace the Ancien Régime institutions with new ones able to support the course of progress and improve the life of the people. Yet, Smithian thought, while sharing the cultural aim of his age, is divergent from Juridical Enlightenment in many ways. I explain this divergen…
University of Palermo symposium: multidisciplinary studies on Adam Smith’s thought – epistemology, economics, and law.
2021
L'Economista Anglofilo. Paolo Balsamo e l'utopia liberale in Sicilia (1787-1816)
2023
Paolo Balsamo -economist and professor of University of Palermo from 1787 to 1812- was a traveller and expert in the most advanced and modern British and European agriculture. He wrote articles and essays, both in English and Italian, on agriculture and political economy and was a correspondent of important cultural and political circles of British Whiggism. As a member of the Sicilian Parliament, ideologist of the constitutional party and trusted collaborator of Lord Bentinck, he wrote the Sicilian Constitution of 1812 which reformed the old institution of the Kingdom of Sicily transforming it into a liberal State. This monography explores Balsamo's intellectual and political figure throug…
Paolo Balsamo, Smithianism and the Birth of Liberalism in Sicily
2020
The article focuses on the transition process of Sicily, between the end of 18th century and the beginning of 19th, from the Ancien Regime to a modern society, underlining the intellectual and political role of the Sicilian economist Paolo Balsamo. The professor of Agriculture and Economics at University of Palermo founded the Sicilian liberalism on Adam Smith’s works and tried to reform the institutions of the island aiming to make them the model of a Smithian nation. The article analyses Balsamo’s work by highlighting the interlacement of culture, social interests and political emergencies, all of which had an effect on how Smithianism was adopted in Sicily.
La "società commerciale" e il tema della corruzione nel dibattito del XVIII secolo.
2018
La tradizione repubblicana, a partire da Machiavelli, pone la corruzione come l'elemento disgregatore della convivenza civile, la cui diffusione conduce al prevalere del vantaggio del singolo sul bene della comunità e alla perdita di libertà dei cittadini. La riflessione su virtù e corruzione nei secoli XVII e XVIII assume sempre più rilievo a seguito dell'affermarsi di una moderna economia di mercato e della transizione verso forme più avanzate di capitalismo. Tale dibattito giunge al suo più maturo compimento nel tardo illuminismo quando il tema della società commerciale - l'espressione con cui Adam Smith definisce quelle organizzazioni sociali fondate sul mercato- impone un ripensamento …
L'inévitable aliénation? La division du travail en Grande-Bretagne à l'aube de la révolution industrielle
2002
Adam Smith, dans ses Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations, attire l'attention sur le caractère inévitable de la division du travail et ses aspects positifs pour l'économie. Il reconnaît aussi les aspects négatifs de cette division du travail pour l'individu forcé de s'y conformer. Après un rappel de la position de Smith, nous verrons en seconde partie comment les médecins, en particulier William Buchan, ont perçu les inconvénients physiques de la grande industrie qui se met en place en Grande-Bretagne dans le dernier tiers du dix-huitième siècle. Enfin, nous étudierons le combat mené par William Godwin, auteur radical et pré-anarchiste, contre cette division ali…