Giuseppe Maria Galanti

Giuseppe Maria Galanti (1743–1806) was an Italian historian and economist, in the Kingdom of Naples.

Galanti was born in Santa Croce del Sannio, Molise.

[2] While young he was influenced by independent-minded priests and came to hate feudalism; moving as a boy to Naples, he came to know the ideas of Gaetano Filangieri as well as those of Genovesi.

[3] With the title Visitatore generale del Regno, he surveyed the state of the kingdom, and proposed agricultural and economic reforms.

A critic of the top layers of Neapolitan society, he considered them too little interested in commerce.