Journal title STUDI ECONOMICI
Author/s Adriano Giannola
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2015/115
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 117-133 File size 69 KB
DOI 10.3280/STE2015-115005
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The Scienza della Legislazione by Gaetano Filangieri (1752-1778) had a great influence in the European Enlightemment. The close relationship between Filangieri and Benjamin Franklin also influenced the elaboraion of the American Constitution. Filangieri’s approach to the poltical economy was completely at odds with Adam Smith consideration of self love and self interest as positive values. The essay points out the most valuable charcteristics of Filangieri’s analysis. It concludes proposing a parallelism between Filangieri’s abstract elaboration and the tragic turn that brought Robespierre, in the name of these principles, to theorize the "Terror" during the French Revolution.
Keywords: History of economic thought, Law, Legal Institutions
Jel codes: B1, K4
Adriano Giannola, Razionalità e filantropia nella scienza di Gaetano Filangieri in "STUDI ECONOMICI " 115/2015, pp 117-133, DOI: 10.3280/STE2015-115005