GALIANI, FERDINANDO (1728-1787), Italian econo mist, was born at Chieti on Dec. 2, 1728, and educated for the Church at Naples and Rome. He occupied various official positions. In his Trattato della Moneta (175o) he evolved a theory of value and a conception of utility, which to some extent anticipates the work of Jevons and Menger, while in Dialoghi sal Commercio dei Grani (Paris, 177o) he made important contributions to the theory of international trade. Though tinged with mercantilistic doc trines, this latter work has been considered the most notable treatise of that period on practical economics. Galiani also won a reputation as a wit, which he sustained in his work Raccolte in Morte del Bola (175o). He died on Oct. 3o, 1787.
See A. Marghieri, L'Abbate Galiani (1878) ; and Viesseux, L'Archivio Storico (Florence, 1878) containing his correspondence with Tanucci.