Giuseppe Maria Galanti

Giuseppe Maria Galanti (1743–1806) was an Italian economist, in the Kingdom of Naples.

Galanti was born in Santa Croce del Sannio, Molise. He was a follower of Pietro Giannone and studied under Antonio Genovesi. While young he was influenced by independent-minded priests and came to hate feudalism; moving as a boy to Naples, he came to know the ideas of Gaetano Filangieri as well as those of Genovesi.

With the title Visitatore generale del Regno, he surveyed the state of the kingdom, and proposed agricultural and economic reforms. A critic of the top layers of Neapolitan society, he considered them too little interested in commerce.

(critical edition, Maria Rosaria Pelizzari, 2000)

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