The Material Side of Enlightened Reformism

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.