Science and political economy in Enlightenment Milan, 1760–1805 Maddaluno

Science and political economy in Enlightenment Milan, 1760-1805Author(s): Lavinia Maddaluno\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Voltaire Foundation\nISBN-13: 9781835534045, 978-1835534045\nSynopsis\nThis book is about the parlance of political economic ideas with scientific practices in the Duchy of Milan, from the late eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy to the early nineteenth-century Napoleonic era. It advocates for a shift in perspective from the history of ideas of political economy to the history of scientific practices, as an innovative methodological stance, to offer a more articulated understanding of how political economic ideas circulated and were appropriated in Europe and Milan between the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In sum, the book asserts that the making and enforcement of political economic ideas into policies could not be possible without the mediation of scientific practices, and draws on a number of c.