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The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy
The terms capitalism and socialism continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the eighteenth century had its socialists, but unlike those of the nineteenth, they paradoxically sought to make the world safe for capitalists. The word socialists was first used in Northern Italy as a term of contempt for the political economists and legal reformers Pietro Verri and Cesare Beccaria, author of the epochal Read more