Margherita Palumbo Libri

This exhibition presents a selection of some 150 first editions which covers all the themes of the modern economy from the origins of commerce and banking in the Italian city states to today?s economy, passing through the first steps towards capitalism in the Spain of Emperor Charles V, the mercantilist and interventionist policy of absolutist states, the emergence of the new theories of Adam Smith, not forgetting the debate between the disciples of liberalism and supporters of protectionism as a means of stimulating growth in the economies of nations.00Exhibition: Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels, Belgium (07.10.2016-15.01.2017).