Pietro Verri was born to a conservative noble family the eldest son of Gabriele Verri and Barbara Dati Della Somaglia, in a house of the Archinto in via Stampa 19 in Milan, then under Austrian rule.
17 Facts About Pietro Verri
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Pietro Verri studied in the Jesuit college in Monza, five years in the college of Barnabites in San Alessandro in Milan and two years in Rome in the college of Nazareno run by the Scolopi order.
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Pietro Verri received a strong religious education, from which he began to rebel when he reached his twenties.
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Pietro Verri volunteered to serve in the Seven Years' War in order to escape his father's decision to register him for legal studies but quit after a year.
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Pietro Verri was the founder, leader, and active contributor to both.
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Magazine 10 of Volume 1 has an article by Pietro Verri devoted to thoughts on the spirit of Italian Literature Here Verri describes Galileo-Newtonianism at the philosophical level as a force of renovation, providing a new connecting frame for scientific reasoning, in the spirit of what we have called above moral Newtonianism.
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Pietro Verri's work is clearly one of the many examples in the economic literature which during the quarter-century after 1750 marks the emergence of political economy as a separate science.
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Pietro Verri provides the first systematic contribution stemming from the quarters of Lombard enlightenment in the field of political economy.
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Success in achieving this policy objective can be measured by at least three different means in the absence of reliable national output data, as Pietro Verri indicates at various points in his treatise.
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Pietro Verri stresses consumer sovereignty, by arguing that demand regulates supply and not the contrary.
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Pietro Verri's contribution is strictly connected here to the basic theoretical assumptions of his theory of action.
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Unlike Hume, Pietro Verri pays no attention to deflux of money and to the ensuing deflation.
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Pietro Verri describes here a sort of Hume-Cantillon transmission mechanism without inflation.
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Pietro Verri argues that the excess of desires over and above possibilities or "power" is a measure of unhappiness.
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Pietro Verri appears from the start as one of the leading representatives eighteenth-century eudomistic views.
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Pietro Verri lays a special emphasis upon creativity rather than mere enjoyment of what is already in our possession as a condition for happiness.
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Pietro Verri is buried in the chapel of the Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin of Lazzaretto di Ornago, next to his first wife.