‎GALIANI (Ferdinando).‎
‎Della Moneta, Libri Cinque.‎

‎In Napoli, Presso Giuseppe Raimondi, 1750. In-4 de (16)-370-(6) pp., veau marbré, dos orné à nerfs, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque). ‎

Reference : 43434


‎Édition originale de cet important texte sur l'économie. Le thème principal de « Della Moneta » est l'analyse des effets de la monnaie tels que « la hausse et la baisse ». En 1749-50, Galiani (1728-1787) poussé par la crise monétaire qui s'étendit au royaume de Naples après la paix d'Aix-la-Chapelle, écrivit Della moneta publié de manière anonyme, probablement par crainte de la jeunesse et de l'inexpérience présumée de l'auteur. Mais après l'accueil favorable du monde culturel et politique napolitain, et face aux rumeurs qui lui attribuaient la paternité du traité, Galiani reconnut dès octobre 1751 qu'il en était l'auteur. Galiani se distingue clairement : par l'ampleur et le caractère organique du traitement, par les définitions claires et lucides des concepts économiques fondamentaux (comme la valeur des biens), pour l'originalité de sa réflexion sur le problème des manipulations monétaires. Le point de départ était une analyse détaillée des métaux précieux et de la valeur intrinsèque de la monnaie, due à la quantité de métal : même le métal précieux non frappé pouvait donc être appelé monnaie et la frappe n'était rien d'autre qu'un signe de la quantité de métal contenu. De cette manière, G. rejetait la théorie contractuelle sur l’origine de la monnaie, issue d’Aristote et qui avait été acceptée par de nombreux auteurs ultérieurs. Malgré ces prémisses, il considérait la soi-disant augmentation, la diminution de la quantité de métal dans une pièce qui conservait sa valeur de frappe originale, une mesure juste et utile pour les gouvernements qui l'avaient adoptée (Silvio De Majo).Édition originale de deuxième état avec à la page 31 « vivere. Qual cosa adunque piu' giusta ».Bel exemplaire dans une fine reliure française de l'époque, complet de l'erratum et des deux feuillets Carolus Dei Gratias. Défaut d'impression à la page 340.Einaudi, 2329 ; Goldsmiths, 8528 ; Kress, 5034. ‎

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‎"GALIANI, FERDINANDO.‎

Reference : 60056

(1780)

‎Della moneta libri cinque. Edizione seconda. - [""THE BEST OF THE MANY TREATISES PUBLISHED IN ITALY ON MONEY""]‎

‎Napoli, Stamperia Simoniana, 1780. 4to. In contemporary full vellum with leather title label with gilt lettering to spine. Occassionally brownspotted throughout, otherwise a good copy. (28), 416 pp.‎


‎Second edition, supplemented with a preface, notes and an epilogue, remarking on the change in the current situation since the first edition, of this groundbreaking work in monetary economics, considered one of the first specific treatises on economics. Galiani's treatise, first printed anonymously in 1751, was not just a work of economics"" it was based on the principal that freedom was important for society to work properly and it became very influential in subsequent monetary theory - ""This is the best of the many treatises published in Italy on money"" (McCulloch). Most of Galiani’s theoretical work can be found in his ‘Della moneta’. Despite the variety of topics addressed in the book, the basic contributions concern value and monetary theory and the so called paradox of value which according to Schumpeter he ‘carried this analysis to its 18th-century peak’ (History of Economic Analysis, p.300). “Besides being a policy paper – stressing, in Vico’s tradition, the importance of happiness and utility and arguing that policy does not have principles, hence different economic policies are needed in different times – Della moneta is also a sophisticated theoretical treatise. The latter is probably the highest analysis on the nature of money, its value and the implications of different policies on prices, supply and demand of goods and equilibrium. In the tradition of Montanari and Davanzati, Galiani develops a subjective value theory on philosophical and psychological grounds. The value of anything is something that human human beingsdetermine for themselves naturally, through their own mutual agreement. Utility equals happiness and is inversely proportional to rarity" value is a function of marginal utility" no lawm nor governments, should therefore try to impose estimates of value (‘alzamento’) on others, because this coercion would eventually ruin and corrupt the natural order of things. In the treatise he challenged both Broggio, Locke and above all Jean-Francois Melon, whose work he knew through his uncle Celestino. He proclaims his debt to a long tradition of studies on money and on monetary theory: from Aristotle, to the Spanish theologians of the School of Salamanca, Bernardo Davanzati and William Petty, showing the breadth of his reading and the quality of sources.” (Books that Made Europe). Ferdinando Galiani was a leading Italian figure of the Enlightenment and one of the most notable Italian economists of all time. Friedrich Nietzsche referred to him as ""a most fastidious and refined intelligence"" as well as ""... the most profound, sharp-sighted and perhaps also the foulest man of his century."" Kress I. B 275. Einaudi 2330 Mattioli 1374 McCulloch p. 190‎

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