FERDINANDO See also:GALIANI (1728–1787)
, See also:Italian economist, was See also:born at See also:Chieti on the 2nd of See also:December 1728
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He was carefully educated by his See also:uncle See also:Monsignor C
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See also:Galiani at See also:Naples and See also:Rome with a view to entering the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church
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Galiani gave See also:early promise of distinction as an economist, and even more as a wit
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At the See also:age of twenty-two, after he had taken orders, he had produced two See also:works by which his name became widely known far beyond the See also:bounds of his own Naples
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The one, his Trattato della nzoneta, in which he shows himself a strong supporter of the See also:mercantile school, deals with many aspects of the question of See also:exchange, but always with a See also:special reference to the See also:state of confusion then presented by the whole monetary See also:system of the Neapolitan See also:government
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The other, Raccolta in See also:Marie del Boia, established his fame as a humorist, and was highly popular in Italian See also:literary circles at the end of the 18th See also:century
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In this See also:volume Galiani parodied with exquisite felicity, in a See also:series of discourses on the See also:death of the public hangman, the styles of the most pompous and pedantic Neapolitan writers of the See also:day
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Galiani's See also:political knowledge and social qualities now pointed him out to the discriminating See also:eye of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Charles, afterwards Charles III. of See also:Spain, and his liberal See also:minister Tanucci, and he was appointed in 1759 secretary to the Neapolitan See also:embassy at See also:Paris
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This See also:post he held for ten years, when he returned to Naples and was made a councillor of the tribunal of See also:commerce, and in 1777, minister of the royal domains
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His economic reputation was made by a See also:book written in See also:French and published in Paris, namely, his Dialogues sur le commerce See also:des bles
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This See also:work, by its See also:light and pleasing See also:style, and the vivacious wit with which it abounded, delighted See also:Voltaire, who spoke of it as a book in the See also:production of which See also:Plato and See also:Moliere might have been combined
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The author, says Pecchio, treated his arid subject as See also:Fontenelle did the vortices of See also:Descartes, or See also:Algarotti the Newtonian system of the See also:world
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The question at issue was that of the freedom of the See also:corn See also:trade, then much agitated, and, in particular, the policy of the royal See also:edict of 1764, which permitted the exportation of See also:grain so See also:long as the See also:price had not arrived at a certain height
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The See also:general principle he maintains is that the best system in regard to this trade is to have no system—countries differently circumstanced requiring, according to him, different modes of treatment
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He See also:fell, however, into some of the most serious errors of the mercantilists—holding, as indeed did also Voltaire and even Verri, that one See also:country cannot gain without another losing, and in his earlier See also:treatise going so far as to defend the See also:action of governments in debasing the currency
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Until his death at Naples on the30th of See also:October 1787, Galiani kept up with his old Parisian See also:friends a See also:correspondence, which was published in 1818
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See L'arbate Galiani, by Alberto Marghieri (1878), and his correspondence with Tanucci in Viesseux's L'Archivio storico (See also:Florence,
1878)
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