After the revolt of 1647, the Habsburgs deliberately worked to destroy trust relations in order merely to maintain control (until Naples passed to Austria under Bourbon rule in 1738). Three Neapolitan political economists of the eighteenth century, Paolo Mattia Doria, Antonio Genovesi, and Gaetano Filangeri, attempted to explain how a working economy could be created on the ruins of the distrusting Spanish order.

XREF: Connects to broader themes of how imperial powers sacrifice social capital for control.

Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, loc. 836