Ferdinando Coelestinus Galiani (* 2 December 1728 in Chieti; "† 30 October 1787 in Neapel) was an Italian economist and writer.

Life

1735 were trained Galiani by his uncle, archbishop Celestino Galiani, one of the most influential men in the kingdom, in Neapel and occasionally in Rome. Neapel was at that time the third biggest metropolis of Europe and the house of the uncle, the Casa Galiani, the intellectual center. 1744 it was accepted to "the Accademia degli Emuli ".

Its Hauptwerk Della Moneta - Libri Cinque (dt.: Over the money - five books) 1751 appeared. A journey by upper Italy became for it the literary triumph course. In Rome it became of Pope Benedikt XIV. received. 1755 appointed it king Karl IV. of Neapel (Karl III. (Spain)) to the member of the academy of Herculanum, which had the task to lead the excavation work in the antique Herculaneum and describe the finds. In the period of 1759 to 1769 Galiani was a secretary of the neapolitanischen legation in Paris, where he became the favourite of the salons. In the following year its book appeared "Dialogues sur le commerce " (dialogues over the grain trade), which became in Paris the best-seller. Its writings were praised by Diderot, Voltaire and the other In Neapel he was appointed in the same year the secretary of the highest commercial court. 1782 he became first assessor of the highest financial advice in the Kingdom of Neapel. Galiani was now famous. It stood for the large one in exchanges of letters with Friedrich and many other European princes.

Works

• Della moneta is considered as classical work of the Italian literature. Galiani represents here - contrary to the opinion at that time - which thesis that the value a characteristic of the things is not justified, but in human nature. The money is a commodity (at that time from gold or silver), whose value depends on supply and demand. This thesis will represent today from the neoquantitativen Chicagoer school. The implicit consequence from Galianis analysis is to extract from the rulers the right of disposal over the monetary system and to subordinate the creation of money of democratic control.
• In Dialogues sur le commerce analyzes Galiani the hunger emergency in Neapel (1763-1766) and comes in the end that the Sicherstellung of the basic supply is not only to be regarded under economic criteria, but that the state is obligated at "the public goods "to guarantee production. In its entire economic work it points out that the well-being being issued of a country depends on the democratic, free market safety device of the monetary value, on well working national institutions and an awake social conscience.
• The letters of the Galiani (with introduction and notes of William Weigand, Munich and Leipzig 1914; a selection is in Galiani, light of letters, the other library Hg. per cent M. Enzensberger) after its return from Paris corresponded to Galiani with its Paris friends from the circle of the and the salons (among other things madame Necker, madame d'Epinay). These letters belong to the most interesting and spirit-richest reflections of the European spirit life the eve of the French revolution.

Literature

Werner Tabarelli: Ferdinando Galiani - over the money. Publishing house economics and finances, Duesseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-87881-132-2

See also

List of economists

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