Title: Le Isole del lusso. Prodotti esotici, nuovi consumi e cultura economica europea,1650-1800
Description: The Isles of Luxury.
EXOTIC GOODS, NEW CONSUMPTION,  AND  EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CULTURE   1650-1800

This is a history about a cluster of American and Asian goods that enjoyed worldwide  adoption  and  give birth  to new collective behaviors and induces significant changes in the world economy after 1650.
 The first chapter describes the tenacity with which traditional moral values and common prejudices prevailed withholding the free flow of economic thought  based on modern consumption sustained by economic freedom..
	The second chapter illustrates the medical, theological and economic debate pertaining luxury as a need or as a consumer good, which revolutionized ideas and approaches towards diverse issues innovating economic ideas because   the new economic order required  new conceptual tools and new economic ethos. 
 	In the second  half  of XVIII century the first substantiated definition for consumption developed in political economy. Turgot, Pietro Verri , and Adam Smith, identifies people’s actions as the primary source of the relationship between production and consumption, and how this interaction  will  improve the population’s standard of living.
	The fourth chapter  shows the relevance of American and Asian products in modern world’s consumption. I put forth the evidence of their introduction, economic debate and expansion in Occidental markets were accepted as a consumer good and not as luxury or extravagance. 
	The fifth chapter deals with the impact of  the consumption of calicoes imported from India and tobacco imported from the Americas created new European productions and introduced   technological innovations which brought upon the  industrial revolution.
	The sixth chapter illustrates  the second wave of American and Asian imports, notably sugar, tea and coffee, that  inaugurate a new social consumption season in Europe that transformed social ties and family conviviality, all important factors in developing  public space, urban social meeting points.
The last chapter show how the adoption of exotic goods modifies the relationship within economic, social, institutional and cultural dimensions and how the different consumer behaviors adjust their relatively fixed income in order to include the new consumption preferences.
Subjects: History, Consumption (Economics), Economic history