MELCHIORRE See also:

• MELCHIORRE GIOJA (1767-1829)

GIOJA (1767-1829)  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian writer on See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy and See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• ECONOMY

economy, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• PIACENZA (Lat. Placentia)

Piacenza, on the loth of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1767 . Originally intended for 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, he took orders, but renounced them in 1796 and went to See also:

• MILAN
• MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

Milan, where he devoted himself to the study of political economy . Having obtained the See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize for an See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay on " the See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of See also:

• FREE

free See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government best adapted to See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy " he decided upon the career of a publicist . The arrival of See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon in Italy See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew him into public See also:

• LIFE

life . He advocated a See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic under the dominion of the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French in a pamphlet I Tedeschi, i Francesi, ed i Russi in Lombardia, and under the Cisalpine Republic he was named historiographer and director of See also:

• STATISTICS

statistics . He was several times imprisoned, once for eight months in 1820 on a See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge of being implicated in a See also:

• CONSPIRACY (from Lat. conspirare, literally to breathe together, to agree, combine, and especially to form a secret plot)

conspiracy with the See also:

• CARBONARI (an Italian word meaning " charcoal-burners ")

Carbonari . After the fall of Napoleon he retired into private life, and does not appear to have held See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office again . He died on the 2nd of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1829 . See also:

• GIOJA, MELCHIORRE (1767-1829)

Gioja's fundamental See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea is the value of statistics or the collection of facts . Philosophy itself is with him See also:

• CLASSIFICATION (Lat. classis, a class, probably from the root cal-, cla-, as in Gr. icaMce, clamor)

classification and See also:

• CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration of ideas . See also:

• LOGIC (Xoy1K7, sc. rixvrt, the art of reasoning)

Logic he regarded as a See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical See also:

• ART

art, and his Esercizioni logici has the further See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title, Art of deriving benefit from See also:

• ILL

ill-constructed books . In See also:

• ETHICS
• ETHICS, SHAFTESBURY, HOBBES

ethics Gioja follows See also:

• BENTHAM, GEORGE (1800-1884)
• BENTHAM, JEREMY (1748-1832)

Bentham generally, and his large See also:

• TREATISE

treatise Del merito e delle recompense (1818) is a clear and systematic view of social ethics from the utilitarian principle .

In political economy this avidity for facts produced better fruits . The Nuovo Prospetto delle scienze economiche (1815-1817), although See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long to excess, and overburdened with classifications and tables, contains much valuable material . The author prefers large properties and large commercial undertakings to small ones, and strongly favours association as a means of See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production . He defends a restrictive policy and insists on the See also:

• NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas)

necessity of the See also:

• ACTION

action of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state as a regulating See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power in the See also:

• INDUSTRIAL

industrial See also:

• WORLD

world . He was an opponent of ecclesiastical domination . He must be credited with the finest and most See also:

• ORIGINAL

original treatment of See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of labour since the See also:

• WEALTH

Wealth of Nations . Much of what See also:

• BABBAGE, CHARLES (1792—1871)

Babbage taught later on the subject of combined See also:

• WORK

work is anticipated by Gioja . His theory of production is also deserving of See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention from the fact that it takes into See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account and gives due prominence to immaterial goods . Throughout the work there is continuous opposition to See also:

• ADAM
• ADAM (or ADAN) DE LE HALE (died c. 1288)
• ADAM, ALEXANDER (1741–1809)
• ADAM, JULIETTE (1836– )
• ADAM, LAMBERT SIGISBERT (1700-1759)
• ADAM, MELCHIOR (d. 1622)
• ADAM, PAUL (1862– )
• ADAM, ROBERT (1728—1792)
• ADAM, SIR FREDERICK (1781-1853)
• ADAM, WILLIAM (1751-1839)

Adam See also:

• SMITH
• SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
• SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
• SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
• SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
• SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
• SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
• SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
• SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
• SMITH, G
• SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
• SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
• SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
• SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
• SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
• SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
• SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
• SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
• SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
• SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
• SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
• SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
• SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
• SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
• SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
• SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
• SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
• SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
• SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
• SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
• SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)

Smith . Gioja's latest work Filosofia della statistica (2 vols., 1826; 4 vols., 1829-r83o) contains in brief See also:

• COMPASS (Fr. corn pas, ultimately from Lat. cum, with, and passus, step)

compass the essence of his ideas on human life, and affords the clearest insight into his aim and method in philosophy both theoretical and practical . See monographs by G . D .

Romagnosi (1829), F . Falco (1866) ; G . Pecchio, Storia dell' economia pubblica in Italia (1829), and See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article in See also:

• ERSCH, JOHANN SAMUEL (1766–1828)

Ersch and See also:

• GRUBER, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (1774-1851)

Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopadie; for Gioja's philosophy, L . See also:

• FERRI, CIRO (1634-1689)
• FERRI, LUIGI (1826-1895)

Ferri, Essai sur l'histoire de la philosophic en See also:

• ITALIC

Italic au XIX' siecle (1869); See also:

• UEBERWEG, FRIEDRICH (1826-1871)

Ueberweg's Hist. of Philosophy (Eng. tr., appendix H.); A . Rosmini-Serbati, Opuscoli filosofici, iii . (1844) (containing an attack_on Gioja's " sensualism "); for his political economy, See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of See also:

• WORKS

works in J . See also:

• CONRAD (d. 955)
• CONRAD, JOSEPH (1856– )
• CONRAD, or KONRAD (M. H. Ger. Kuonrdl, i.e. " keen in counsel," Lat. Conradus, It. Corrado, cf. the A.S. Ccenred)

Conrad's HandwOrterbuch der Stealswissenschaften (1892); L . See also:

• COSSA, LUIGI (1831-1896)
• COSSA, PIETRO (183o-188o)

Cossa, Introd. to Pol . Econ . (Eng. trans., p . 488) . Gioja's See also:

• COMPLETE

complete works were published at See also:

• LUGANO (Ger. Lauis)
• LUGANO, LAKE OF (also called CERESIO)

Lugano (1832-1849) .

He was one of the founders of the Annali universali di statistica .