Il De Monetae mutatione (1609) di Juan de Mariana e la questione costituzionale sollevata contro la svalutazione monetaria
Abstract
Questo contributo offre una versione italiana di un saggio precedentemente pubblicato con il titolo Quantitative Easing Four Centuries Ago: Juan de Mariana’s De monetae mutatione (1609), in J. Witte Jr, S. McDougall - A. di Robilant (eds.), Texts and Contexts in Legal History: Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue, Robbins Collection – University of California, Berkeley 2016, pp. 367-379. Traduzione italiana di Paolo Evangelisti.
This contribution concentrates on Juan de Mariana’s De monetae mutatione (1609), a plea against the attempt by King Philip III to rescue his country from bankruptcy by debasing copper money. Mariana’s critical evaluation of the laxist monetary policy in his time rested on a strong constitutionalist understanding of the relationship between institutional power and citizens’ rights. He defended a rules-based monetary order, in which the natural rights of the individuals must be protected against the arbitrary exercise of power by the prince. Considering the stability of money as some kind of divine reference point, Mariana fiercely rejected the unholy attempt to tinker with money’s value, warning against its diabolic effects, particularly the expropriation of citizens without their consent.
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