Since the Weber-Sombart debate on the birth of capitalism, Alberti's Family Books have been presented as an essential source on the origins of this movement and Alberti himself as a "pioneer of capitalism". The present text aims to show that Alberti is above all an intellectual, who certainly seeks to understand the workings of the business world, particularly in Florence, but who is not in a position to understand it to the end. Indeed, Alberti cannot accept that an individual takes risks to earn even more money when he already has a lot. Nor does he understand how wealth can be created. On the other hand, he knows how to explain very finely how an already rich person can keep his wealth. In this, at least in the De familia books, he is much more "bourgeois" than "capitalist".
Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, France
Titolo del capitolo
Ozio, attività e lavoro nei libri De familia di Alberti
Autori
Michel Paoli
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.49
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Curatori
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
1894
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919