{"product_id":"love-self-deceit-and-money","title":"Love, Self-Deceit and Money","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Love drives and gives life to the commerce of mankind.\" Thus, the sixteen year old Ferdinando Galiani (1728-1787) presented his project to understand the sociable nature of man. This observation, a reflection of his own position on the relation between trade and virtue, hinted at what the mature works of Galiani, one of the most noteworthy economists and wits in eighteenth-century Italy, would eventually yield.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLove, Self-Deceit, and Money\u003c\/i\u003e, Koen Stapelbroek reconstructs the Early Neapolitan Enlightenment debate on the morality of market societies, a debate that hinged on the preservation of Naples' independent statehood in a global arena of commercial and military competition. Galiani rejected the moralizing and mercantile ideas of his contemporaries regarding the dangers threatening Naples, and, in his \u003ci\u003eDella moneta\u003c\/i\u003e (1751), he justified the systems set in place by the Neapolitan government. With reference to early, previously unstudied lectures on self-deceptive 'Platonic love,' Koen Stapelbroek examines Galiani's role in the wider debate, arguing that his early moral philosophical and historical work suggests a great deal about his political-economic stance, including his assertion that money is the ultimate ordering principle in the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a study of one of the most idiosyncratic minds of the Enlightenment period, \u003ci\u003eLove, Self-Deceit, and Money\u003c\/i\u003e shows how diverse ideas of the development of individual passions into social dispositions, commerce, and reform politics dovetailed seamlessly in the intellectual climate of eighteenth-century Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"By Koen Stapelbroek","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575438082230,"sku":"9780802092885","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780802092885_b9a936c3-edea-4cfe-8749-ca4817bbabae.jpg?v=1727458789","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/love-self-deceit-and-money","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}