Popularizing economics
Giovanni Ceccarelli
This article explores pre-modern moral economy from an unconventional perspective. Instead of focusing on major thinkers and celebrated texts, it addresses lesser known sources unoriginal authors, shifting the analysis production economic ideas to their transmission reception. Two specific domains are targeted. On one side, exemplary set minor unedited works made short compositions, abridgments, collations; other, texts deviating academic canons by writing about in vernacular instead Latin. These provide insights how vocabularies conceptualizations developed within intellectual sphere, when coming into contact with a larger public, were reworked adapted.
Studia historica