Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Patalano, Rosario (Editor), Reinert, Sophus A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
• Subjects: Science.; Science, general.

Little is known of Antonio Serra except that he wrote his extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes that Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail, and that he died there soon afterwards. However the contribution this work made represents a water...