Serra’s Breve trattato and the Theory of Economic Development

Jan Kregel

Chapter 15 in Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government, 2016, pp 315-324 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract What can we take away from reading an obscure treatise, written some four hundred years ago? One might expect that it would allow us to measure the progress that has been made in economics since that time. However, what it does is make very evident how much economics has changed from a practical subject that deals with economic policy to improve living conditions, to a theoretical subject carried on primarily for the amusement of its practitioners.

Keywords: Exchange Rate; Foreign Direct Investment; Foreign Investment; Precious Metal; Foreign Exchange Market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137539960_16

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