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Saverio Scrofani | |
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| Born | October 21, 1756 |
| Died | 7 March 1835 (aged 78) |
| Nationality | Italian |
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| Parent(s) | Tommaso Scrofani Isabella Alagona |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political economy, political philosophy |
| School or tradition | Classical economics |
Saverio Scrofani (21 November 1756 – 7 March 1835) was a Sicilian adventurer and economist.
Biography
[edit]Originally professor of agriculture at Venice, lived, after the destruction of the Venetian republic, several years in Paris, where he was chosen a member of the Institute of France. In Paris he became an informer of the Neapolitan ambassador in France, Marzio Mastrilli. After leaving Paris he lived in Venice, Greece, Trieste, and Florence before returning to Sicily. In 1814 he was appointed director of the statistical department at Naples, but on account of his liberal tendencies was obliged to resign in 1822.
Strongly imbued with the ideas of the French physiocrats, Scrofani regarded landowners and agriculturists as "the only possessors of future wealth." and "those who essentially compose the nation." On this basis he maintained the necessity of freedom of trade in corn in particular and of free-trade in general. His views are stated in his Memoria sulla libertà del commercio dei grani della Sicilia (included in Custodi's Scrittori classici italiani dell'ec. pol. Parte moderna); in his Elogio del Granduca Pietro Leopoldo di Toscana (reprinted in Gianni's Raccolta degli economisti Toscani, vol. I., Florence, 1848): and in his Memorie di economia politica (Pisa, 1826); in the latter he also treated on ancient and modern systems of taxation, and discussed Italian manufactures. Towards the end of the last century a memorial in favour of free trade in corn, founded on facts collected in Tuscany, was presented by him to the king of Naples under the title of Riflessioni sopra le sussistenze, risvegliate da fatti osservati in Toscana, and printed as an appendix to Matteo Biffi Tolomei's Confronto della ricchezza dei paesi che godono libertà nel commercio frumentario (1795). An adaptation of his early works was published in French under the title of Essai sur le commerce en général des nations de l'Europe avec un aperçu sur le commerce de la Sicile en particulier (Paris, 1802).
Bibliography
[edit]- Gobbi, Ulisse (1884). La concorrenza estera e gli antichi economisti Italiani. Milan: U. Hoepli. pp. 268–269.
- Castelot, E. (1894). "Scrofani, Saverio". Dictionary of Political Economy. Vol. 3. London: Macmillan and Company. p. 369.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
[edit]- Alberti, Manfredi (2018). "SCROFANI, Saverio". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 91: Savoia–Semeria (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-88-12-00032-6.