The Cost of Empires: Antonio Serra and the Debate on the Causes and Solutions of Economic Crises in the Viceroyalty of Naples in the 17th Century

Giovanni Zanalda

Chapter 3 in Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government, 2016, pp 38-62 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Between the 1580s and the middle of the 17th century, the Kingdom of Naples — then a Viceroyalty part of the so-called Spanish Habsburg empire — went through a series of economic crises whose causes and management became the subject of lively debates among Neapolitan and Spanish administrators, merchants, foreign bankers, and observers of political and economic events. This Italian kingdom had a central role in the organization of the Spanish economic and political power having contributed with capital and in kind to the consolidation of the Habsburgs’ hold on large part of Europe and expansion in the New World.

Keywords: Exchange Rate; Foreign Exchange; Foreign Banker; Good Government; Public Bank (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137539960_4

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