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Partendo dal dibattito concernente la Neutralità dell'Olanda nella seconda metà del '700, l'autore ha incentrato il suo scritto sull'opera di Isaac de Pinto, banchiere, scrittore e uomo politico di Amsterdam e tra i principali protagonisti di quel dibattito. Così le riflessioni di Pinto, messe in relazione con quelle di altri intellettuali e studiosi di quel secolo come Adam Smith, attorno all'idea di neutralità e dello 'stato costituzionale commerciale' – con i suoi meccanismi teorici e i tentativi pratici di attuarlo – sono state, in ottica comparativa, analizzate come possibili soluzioni per i problemi settecenteschi che sembrano essere quelli del nostro tempo.

This chapter presents an argument that served as a response to supporters of the then dominant view that colonies robbed the mother-country of its population, were expensive and were a main factor in the demise of empires. Thus the economic portfolio of colonies had to be closely guarded in order to retain unity within the Empire. Besides, although relocating Superfluous labour to external territory was in all Respects useful, the Growth of Colonies was slow. It began to employ funds that were previously spent on arms and destroyed in war for shipbuilding and the establishment of colonies, the construction of ports and fortresses, and for the creation of roads and warehouses. Through the moral philosophy and history of commerce and modern government he simultaneously constructed, Galiani arrived at a position from which he launched predictions about the future of international trade and shifts within international relations.

A review essay on a book by M. Abertone [Ed], Il repubblicanesimo moderno: L'idea di repubblica nella riflessione storica di Franco Venturi [The problem of the republics: Venturi's republicanism reconsidered] (Naples: Bibliopolos, Serie Studi 31, 2006).

Throughout Europe, local authorities are facing problems of scale. Municipalities have a variety of tasks, including service delivery and local policymaking. Furthermore, they represent the local society at other levels of government. Although this is a problem of all time, the downward vertical shift of governance is increasing the scale problem in sub-national tiers of government. This chapter focuses on those strategies in which scale enlargement is the main element. In other words, it addresses strategies in which regional governance serves as a solution to the problem of limited local governmental scale. It then discusses two models: 'consolidation' and 'new regionalism' and links these two approaches to the issue of democratic legitimacy. Some countries have decided to create new layers of government at the regional level, and others have improved inter-municipal cooperation. Responsibilities may be vested exclusively within a regional tier of government, or they may be shared by a number of cooperating authorities.