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[log in to unmask] (Nicholas J. Theocarakis)
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Tue Jan 9 09:35:58 2007
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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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