Introduction: Rosario Patalano and Sophus A. Reinert<BR>1. The Place of Naples in the Seventeenth-century Spanish Empire: Gabriel Paquette<BR>2. The Vicaria Prison of Naples in the time of Antonio Serra: Francesca De Rosa<BR>3. The Cost of Empires: Antonio Serra and the Debate on the Causes and Solutions of Economic Crises in the Viceroyalty of Naples in the Seventeenth Century: Giovanni Zanalda<BR>4. Serra's Brief Treatise in a World-System Perspective: The Dutch Miracle and Italian Decadence in the Early 17th Century: Rosario Patalano<BR>5. The Influence of Portuguese Economic Thought on the Breve trattato:<BR>Antonio Serra and Miguel Vaaz in Spanish Naples: Gaetano Sabatini<BR>6. Authority and Expertise at the Origins of Macroeconomics: Sophus A. Reinert<BR>7. The Republic of Liberties and Wealth: The Politics of Antonio Serra: Luca Addante<BR>8. External imbalances and the money supply: Two controversies in the English 'Realme' and in the Kingdom of Naples: Lilia Costabile<BR>9. Real and Monetary Factors in the de Santis-Serra Controversy: André Tiran<BR>10. Serra and underdevelopment: Cosimo Perrotta<BR>11. 'To console and alleviate the human mind': Ferdinando Galiani's attempted re-publication of Serra in the 1750s: Koen Stapelbroek<BR>12. Francesco Saverio Salfi and the eulogy for Antonio Serra: Politics, Freemasonry and the consumption of Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century: Antonio Trampus<BR>13. Serra's Discovery and Ill Fate in the Liberal Nineteenth Century: Francesco di Battista<BR>14. The Heritage of Antonio Serra: Alessandro Roncaglia<BR>15. Serra's Breve Trattato and the Financial and Monetary Aspects of Economic Development: Jan Kregel<BR>16. Antonio Serra and the Problems of Today: Erik S. Reinert<BR>Index<BR>