Political economy in a Florentine salon of the 1870s

Monika Poettinger

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2026, vol. 33, issue 2, 230-262

Abstract: Political economy shared its enlightened cradle with French salon culture. The professionalisation of careers and the scientisation of theories then claimed economists for other social spaces: universities, academies and journals. Only a Tuscan salonnière of the second half of the 19th century, Emilia Toscanelli Peruzzi, still used the network centered on her salon to spread the theories of John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith. Although liberalism faded from Italian politics, the salon left a young cohort of proteges in positions of responsibility and power, as members of Parliament or professors of political economy.

Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2026.2628536

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