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Free Trade before Liberalism
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Chapter 8 situates Livorno amidst a larger picture of competition in the central Mediterranean. It analyzes the spread of free ports by considering the two axes along which Italian ports liberalized during the early modern period: hospitality toward merchants and openness toward goods. Despite much institutional variation, a maritime free trade zone was in existence by the mid-eighteenth century. The intellectual legacy of free ports such as Livorno was nonetheless ambivalent. Though some Enlightenment thinkers used free ports to formulate general theories of free trade, others believed they promoted the subjection of state policy to foreign merchants.
Title: Free Trade before Liberalism
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Chapter 8 situates Livorno amidst a larger picture of competition in the central Mediterranean.
It analyzes the spread of free ports by considering the two axes along which Italian ports liberalized during the early modern period: hospitality toward merchants and openness toward goods.
Despite much institutional variation, a maritime free trade zone was in existence by the mid-eighteenth century.
The intellectual legacy of free ports such as Livorno was nonetheless ambivalent.
Though some Enlightenment thinkers used free ports to formulate general theories of free trade, others believed they promoted the subjection of state policy to foreign merchants.
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