Le débat sur l'idée de ville parmi les économistes italiens au XVIIIe siècle

• Autores: D. Demarco
• Localización: Annales de démographie historique, ISSN 0066-2062, Nº 1, 1982 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Villes du passé), págs. 141-154
• Idioma: francés
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  • The concept of the town has evolved through the ages. During the XVII and XVIII centuries such a question encouraged an important debate between the French and English thinkers and economists, notedly William Petty, Fougerolle, Jean-François Melon, the Abbot of St-Pierre... This gave birth to the thoughts of the Italian économists of the XVIII century on the concept of the town. These writers took an interest in the problems of towns in considering the growth in their population and their demographic concentration. They attempt to distinguish the social difficultes or the dangers represented by urbanization. We find such points of view in the italian states where economic research is more fully developped, that is in the South and Lombardie-Venetie.