The Material Side of Enlightened Reformism
Aug 11, 2022•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
In this episode, Dr Lavinia Maddaluno discusses the role of scientific
practices in the production of political economic ideas in Enlightenment
Milan. Discussing her upcoming monograph Science and political economy in
enlightened Milan (1760s-1815), Lavinia explores the role played by lesser
known naturalists in answering political economic questions of how to
preserve and increase state wealth.
Dr Lavinia Maddaluno is an early modern historian and historian of science.
Her research so far has focussed on the role of scientific knowledge
production in the realization of ideas of wealth, state and society in
Enlightenment Europe. She currently works as non-tenured Assistant
Professor on an ERC project at Ca’ Foscari University in Vernice, Italy.
