To be remembered also the birth of the economic school of Antonio Genovesi, who brought several innovations in the field of national economy and not only, followed also in Apulia by the man of letters Ferrante de Gemmis Maddalena, who founded an Enlightenment Academy, and by the economist Giuseppe Palmieri, director of the Supreme Council of Finance of the Kingdom of Naples at the end of the 18th century. Other prominent names that laid the foundations of modern political economy, economic and monetary disciplines are: Ferdinando Galiani and Gaetano Filangeri. The latter in particular, with his science of legislation, was to inspire the architects of the French Revolution.
