Pietro Verri

The count Pietro Verri , born on December 12th, 1728 with Milan where he died on June 28th, 1797, is a Philosophe, economist, Historien and writer Italy N.

Illustrate Milanese aristocrat, economist, civil servant of the government and philosopher of the Lumières, who, after an unfortunate love affair, a rupture with his family and a major intellectual crisis, arrived on the public stage in 1757 with his pointed satirical directory, gran Zoroastro of It .

Verri was then briefly useful in the Austrian army, in 1759-60, before returning to Milan, where it quickly met important philosophers like Cesare Beccaria. With Beccaria and its own brother Alessandro Verri, it founded it dei Pugni de Società in 1761, an economic scene and newsgroup concentrating on the law and order. From 1764 to 1766, the group published the large newspaper It Coffee . Its third brother the count Carlo Verri was also a politician of foreground and author of important treaties on agriculture.

Verri started to publish works on economic questions in 1760. In 1763, it produced its Felicità Sulla de Meditazioni , a treaty on ethics hedonist; Work spiced with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which did of Verri one of the fathers of the Utilitarisme. Verri has also permi with Beccaria to contribute its seminal shares to utility social philosophy.

After the closing and the dispersion of It Coffee, Verri obtained various stations in the Austrian administration, restoring balance in the imperial accounts. It benefitted from it to publish some of its works utilities most famous: its Discorso in 1773 and its Orsevazioni sulla tortured in 1777 denouncing the use of torture.

In 1771, Politica of economia of sull of Meditzioni of Verri was certainly its greater contribution to the economic theories. Verri alleged that the prices depend on apparent abundance of a good and need of this one. It defines it need as a species of pain which the men seek to the minimum to reduce by the activity and industry. For Verri, them needs are not only desires but must be expressed with the payment, with the purchase, thus they can be regarded as requests in the modern direction. With Beccaria, Verri noted that abundance increase with the number of salesmen (C. - with-D. offers) and them needs with the number of purchasers (C. - with-D. requests). It notes that the value of a product corresponds directly to the need and abundance (either of supply and). In this manner, Verri can be regarded as an important precursor of the revolution marginalist.

The quantitative work of Verri includes not only the excellent attempt to calculate the balance of payments, but also the first mathematical expression of a curve of request. On the economic policy, Verri followed the radical positions Leave-to make recommended by the Physiocrates. It was in disagreement principle of backward flow of David Hume, because according to him the adjustment of the balance of payments occurs not by prices but rather by the levels of the total economic activity (what makes of Verri an early keynesien). Its economic theories are thus intermediate between those of the physiocrats and those of Adam Smith.

In its functions official of the Austrian administration, Verri tried to introduce many economic reforms and administrative, but with little success. In 1772, Verri was vice-president then, in 1780, president of the room of the accounts. It carried out also some memoranda on the invention in the territory of Milan, recommending the rupture to the top of great fields in favor of small possessions. It was withdrawn from the public life in 1786 but lived long enough to make warm welcome with the French revolution.

Principal works of Pietro Verri

Diario Militare , 1759-60
Stato di Milano , 1760 of nello of Sul tributo LED salts
Di Milano , 1760 of E decadenza LED commercio of grandezza of Sulla
Gli elementi LED commercio , 1760.
Nello Stato di Milano , 1762 of monete of delle of disordine of Fromino E Simplicio of will tra of Dialogo
Felicità of Sulla de Meditazioni , 1763
Dell' ass 1763 , 1763 of di Milano of pubblici of avvenimenti of degli of Li Picirilli of Cronaca di Cola Of
Dello Stato di Milano , 1764 of Bilanco del Commercio.
Grani of dei of commercio of nel of principalmente of vincolanti of Reflessioni Sulle Leggi , 1769.
Politica of economia of sull of Meditazioni , 1771.
Dolore of LED of Discorso sull' indol LED piacere E , 1773
ass 1630,1777 of Milano of devastò of che of pestilenza of silicon attribuì of ale quali of malefiche of unzioni of delle
of all' causes produsse of che of effetti of sugli of singolarmente of tortured E of Sulla d' Osservazioni
Dolore of LED of Discorsi LED tell Pietro Verri sull' indol LED piacere E, economia of Sulla of the felicità E of Sulla
Politica , 1781 (repr. from 1773, 1763 and 1771)
Storia di Milano , 1783
Stato di Milano of nello of politica of economia of sull of storiche of Memorie , (publ. 1804)

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