Autore: Finzi, Roberto
Titolo: L'"evil of usury" senza ebrei. Una lettura di Petty, Cantillon, Turgot e Smith
Periodico: Studi storici
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 54 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 41 - Pagina finale: 50

The essay investigates the presence, or absence, of anti-Jewish stereotypes in the worksof William Petty, Richard Cantillon, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, and Adam Smith.The result of this initial survey is that as early as the late seventeenth century, anti-Jewish prejudice is almost absent for the authors, who place it in a perspective ofconcrete, real investigation of economic phenomena. So, in Adam Smith's Wealth ofNations, the «evil of usury» is «evil in itself», without the slightest allusion to Jews ortheir presumed nature. And for his part, Turgot states: «La loi divine n'a certainementpas pu permettre expressément aux juifs de pratiquer avec les étrangers ce qui auraitété défendu par le droit naturel. Dieu ne peut autoriser l'injustice». Why this road islost afterwards in a part of the economic culture is another problem.




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