Uztáriz and His Sources: The Public Good Beyond the Reason of State

Niccolò Guasti ()
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Niccolò Guasti: Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Chapter Chapter 5 in Gerónimo de Uztáriz and his Economic Work, 2025, pp 85-113 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Uztáriz’s treatise advocated a new economic policy for the Spanish Bourbon monarchy: since commerce, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, had come to underpin the balance of power in the international system, he lobbied for strong state intervention to develop national industry and trade with the colonies. Combining his training as a military engineer and a strong expertise in the administrative field with the heuristic tools taken from French Colbertism, Spanish arbitrismo and maybe English Political Arithmetic, Uztáriz featured some possible countermeasures against the re-export Dutch trade and the aggressive economic policy carried out by England since the second half of the seventeenth century. However, he never considered the political solutions or economic data gained from his sources (Vauban, Dubos, Huet, Savary, Moncada, Fernández de Navarrete, etc.) as a theoretical knowledge, but rather a practical know-how, useful to devise an economic policy able to restore Spain as a new model commercial empire.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-75857-7_5

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