My quotation from Galiani's _Dialogues on the Grain Trade_ was downloaded
from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k88409r. There are two other works by
Galiani there: _De' doveri de' principi neutrali verso i principi
guerreggianti, e di questi verso i neutrali_ [Reprod. de l'ed. de, [Milan] :
[s.n.], 1782] and _Opuscules philosophiques et litteraires, la plupart
posthumes ou inedites_ [with Simon-Jerome Bourlet de Vauxcelles, Paris :
Impr. nationale, 1796]. In engish there is a translation of the seventh
dialogue [my quotation was from the 8th dialogue], in the collection
_Commerce, Culture, and Liberty: Readings on Capitalism Before Adam Smith,_
ed. Henry C. Clark (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003) electronically
available from .THE ONLINE LIBRARY OF LIBERTY at
http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/LFBooks/Clark0428/Commerce/0437_Pt26_34.PDF
Galiani was witty, sarcastic, vitriolic, and sometimes outright obscene, in
his criticism of the Physiocrats. See, e.g., F. Steegmuller: A Woman, a
Man, and Two Kingdoms : The Story of Madame D'Epinay and the Abbe Galiani
[Knopf, 1991]. Only Voltaire was better (L'homme aux 40 ecus).
I fully agree with Alain Alcouffe that the Britannica entry is totally
unfair to Galiani.
Nicholas J. Theocarakis
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