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Bibliographical essay 527opment ofEconomic Thought (New York: Wiley, 1952), pp. 61-82. That gapis made up by Filippo Cesarano, 'Monetary Theory in Ferdinando Galiani'sDella moneta', History of Political Economy, 81 (Autumn 1976), pp. 380­99.For the life of Galiani in Paris, see Joseph Rossi, The Abbe Galiani InFrance (New York: Publications of the Institute of French Studies, 1950).Also on Galiani and Genovesi, see Franco Venturi, Italy and the Enlightenment(New York: New York University Press, 1972). On Genovesi, Condillacand the utility of exchange, see Oswald St Clair, A Key to Ricardo (1957,New York: A.M. Kelley, 1965). On Condillac, see Hutchison, Before AdamSmith, pp. 324-31, and Isabel E Knight, The Geometric Spirit: The Abbe deCondillac and the French Enlightenment (New Haven: Yale University Press,1968).The Scottish EnlightenmentAn illuminating social history of the Scottish Enlightenment and its relationto the moderate Presbyterian clergy is Anand C. Chitnis, The Scottish Enlightenment:A Social History (London: Croom Helm, 1976). A trenchantdiscussion of the moderates as apologists for the Presbyterian state ChurchEstablishment is in Richard B. Sher, Church and University in the ScottishEnlightenment: The Moderate Literati ofEdinburgh (Princeton, NJ: PrincetonUniversity Press, 1985).On the doctrines and personal interrelationships of the Scottish Enlightenmentpolitical economists, see William Leslie Taylor, Francis Hutcheson andDavid Hume as Predecessors ofAdam Smith (Durham, NC: Duke UniversityPress, 1965). See also the summary in H.M. Robertson and W.L. Taylor,'Adam Smith's Approach to the Theory of Value', Economic Journal (1957),in Joseph J. Spengler and William R. Allen (eds), Essays in Economic Thought(Chicago: Rand McNally, 1960), p. 288ff. The founding father of this groupis explored in W.L. Taylor, 'Gershom Carmichael: A Neglected Figure inBritish Political Economy', South African Journal of Economics, 23 (Sept.1955), pp. 251-5.For a refutation of the Hayekian view of Bernard Mandeville as exponentof laissez-faire, see Jacob Viner, The Long View and The Short (1953, Glencoe,Ill.: The Free Press, 1958), pp. 332-42. Von Hayek's attempted rebuttalof Viner rests on von Hayek's failure to comprehend the vital distinctionbetween the 'natural' (the processes and results of voluntary actions), and the'artificial' (government interventions in such processes), as well as on vonHayek's enchantment with all actions whatsoever that have supposedly yielded'unintended' results. EA. von Hayek, 'Dr. Bernard Mandeville', New Studiesin Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History ofIdeas (1967, Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1978), pp. 249-66. For an excellent article

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