Books that made Europe
Subtitle: economic governance and democracy from 15th to 20th century
By: edited by Margherita Palumbo and Eugenio Sidoli
Publisher: Bibliotheca Wittockiana
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Brussels
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9782873050023
Subjects: Politics and government; Books; Publishers and publishing; History; Book industries and trade; Intellectual life; Livres; Histoire; Wirtschaftswissenschaften; Politische Ökonomie; Buch
Description: 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).
Notes: Books that made Europe : economic governance and democracy between 15th and 20th century is both the title of a book exhibition held in Brussels between the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017 and of this companion catalogue. The publication of this catalogue was intended to anticipate the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the agreement establishing, on March 25, 1957, the European Economic Community, one of the earliest steps, albeit the most important, towards the ideal of a federation of states.