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Author-Name: Jesús Astigarraga
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Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad de Zaragoza - Departamentos de Estructura y Historia Económica y Economía Pública
Author-Name: Javier Usoz
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Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad de Zaragoza - Departamentos de Estructura y Historia Económica y Economía Pública
Title: Gaetano Filangieri's Political Economy in 18th Century Spain: «Reflexiones económico-políticas» (1792) by Francisco de Paula del Rey
Abstract:  G. Filangieri’s Scienza della legislazione enjoyed considerable success in Spain between 1780 and
1840. The economic ideas expounded in Book ii excited particular interest amongst Spanish liberals
and members of the Enlightenment in this country. Nevertheless, his ideas did not always
receive a warm response. This article begins by looking at the contents of Book ii and
the reactions it aroused in Spain during the final decades of the eighteenth century and then
goes on to provide an in-depth analysis of Francisco de Paula del Rey’s Reflexiones políticoeconómicas
(1792). This text, which has only just come to light, contains a detailed refutation of
Filangieri’s economic and political ideas. The author’s arguments have their roots in the Spanish
Scholastic and Mercantilist movements. The book is further evidence of the existence of an
active anti-enlightenment movement in eighteenth-century European economics that has so
far received scant attention from researchers
Classification-JEL: B11; B31
Keywords: International circulation of economic ideas; Neapolitan and Spanish Enlightenment; scholasticism; mercantilism; physiocracy
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 51-77
Volume: 13
Issue: 2
Year: 2005
File-URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=200506302&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:13:y:2005:2:2:p:51-77