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Economic theory and social reality: an intriguing comparison
No full textA review essay on Roberto Baranzini and Francois Allison (eds), Economics and Other Branches - In the Shade of the Oak Tree: Essays in Honour of Pascal Bridel, London, UK, and Brookfield, VT, USA, Pickering & Chatto, 2014, pp. 55
Ricardo's Travels all around the World
No full textA review essay on Gilbert Faccarello and Masashi Izumo (eds), The Reception of David Ricardoin Continental Europe and Japan, London (UK) and New York (USA), Routledge, 2014, pp. vi-24
Annual survey of ideas in History of economic thought journals (2014-2015)
No full textThis survey briefly comments on a selection of the papers published during 2014-2015 in the main international journals in the history of economic thought (HET henceforth) – the journals, that is to say, which are (or should be) matter of frequent consultation for historians of economic thought. Without any claim to be exhaustive, our work aims at being a useful, practical tool for the scholars, who will find in the survey a glimpse at some of the most debated topics of the last two years. This in the tradition of similar surveys of broad economic fields that were quite common in the past – a tradition that, for a rather circumscribed area such as the HET, it would be important to revive in an era of bibliometric obsession.
The survey is divided in four sections, which we identify as the key subjects covered by recent HET. The first section reviews of a selection of the papers published on Classical Economics. The second section is dedicated to the literature on Austrian Economists. The third introduces some of the works on John Maynard Keynes and the Keynesians. The fourth is dedicated to the literature on Ronald Coase and Neo-institutional economics. While conceding that other threads in HET featured prominently in the 2014-2015 journal, these four areas are the ones that, to our view, best represent what was going on in our discipline’s journals
L'"Impresa di Tripoli": Luigi Einaudi opinion maker
No full textNonostante Luigi Einaudi intendesse fin da giovane la ricerca scientifica come la propria professione elettiva, egli mostrava già di possedere quelle doti di giornalista che ne avrebbero caratterizzato la prolifica attività pubblicistica. Un documento rivelatore dell'importanza attribuita dall'economista italiano al proprio impegno al «Corriere della sera» nelle vesti di commentatore e interprete di fatti economici e sociali e di scelte di politica economica dal 1903 al 1925, è costituito dalla lettera scritta in occasione del commiato dal quotidiano, avvenuto in concomitanza con l'allontanamento di Luigi Albertini dalla direzione e l'inizio del processo di fascistizzazione: “se nell'animo mio”, scriveva Einaudi, “era la scintilla di quella fiamma per cui nello scrivere ci si sente sacerdoti di un'idea, quella scintilla non avrebbe potuto alimentare la fiamma se Luigi Albertini non mi avesse coll'esempio, con lo stimolo continuo, con l'ardore del suo entusiasmo persuaso che il sacerdozio giornalistico era ugualmente nobile ed alto come il sacerdozio scientifico”. La produzione giornalistica di Einaudi fu caratterizzata da uno specifico stile letterario, che fece di lui lo scrittore di riferimento per una vasta platea di lettori, appartenenti soprattutto - ma non solo - al ceto medio; va inoltre sottolineato come, al di là dell'apparente facilità e immediatezza della prosa, egli fosse comunque uno scrittore impegnativo, poco incline a eccessive concessioni per ciò che concerneva il livello di approfondimento dell'analisi
Emptying boxes: Jannaccone and the Italian debate on dumping
No full textBriefly, the experiment will consist in reworking the debate on the theory of dumping that arose in the Italian context in the wake of the concrete problems of the iron and steel industry, when this industry was subjected to the massive action of the German Stahlverband. It was a debate that took shape with considerable enthusiasm on the pages of Luigi Einaudi’s “Riforma sociale” from 1911 onwards; in our present context, one of the aims will be to highlight the main points of the analysis put forward at that time by Pasquale Jannaccone, suggesting that his opinion can be viewed as an approach - albeit still only limited, embryonic, and even somewhat underdeveloped analytically - towards a position that prefigured criticism of the Marshallian model of the perfect market and the tripartite division of production units. (To be sure, stated in such blunt terms, the risk of being charged with anachronism would perhaps be too strong). Or at the very least, Jannaccone’s opinion is symptomatic of a theoretical sense of unease when faced with the crystal-clear nature of the Marshallian model. It was an uneasiness that the Italian economist would elaborate further during the course of his cultural and scientific evolution, to the point of claiming it - without acrimony but with a barely disguised hint of pride - to be a forerunner of the famous polemic on the empty economic boxes, those very boxes that acted as the starting point (but perhaps this too is just one more historiographic myth) of the important breakthrough of twentieth-century economic reflection that was the theory of imperfect competition.
Such nodes are certainly too difficult, too ambitious and too tightly interlinked to be unraveled in the brief space of a paper. Nevertheless, it is not impossible to put forward a few (very cautious and problematic) observations based on the conviction, though this too may be an illusion, that from the future one may be able to learn something about the past, in the sense of enriching the value of some hidden loop or ironing out some (false) wrinkle that was a bit too visible. The entire conception, it is well to remember, sprang from a study published in L. Einaudi’s “Riforma sociale”, which was a veritable laboratory where, in the early decades of the twentieth century, the critical and theoretical energies of Italian economists probed hypotheses and research lines that were not entirely far-fetched, with perceptive intuitions which at times were strikingly powerful, although they may not always have been formulated with the necessary apparatus of s
Arturo Labriola: un libertario tra giornalismo e politica. L'attività pubblicistica del sindacalista dalla crisi di fine secolo all'avvento del fascismo
No full textBini P, Romani R, a cura di, Risorgimento, Marxismo, Keynesismo. Studi di storia del pensiero economico italiano in onore di Aurelio Macchioro, Franco Angeli, Milano 2004
No full textLa cultura economica tra le due guerre
No full textThe studies of cultural policy are the domain which this book - a miscellany by the publisher Franco Angeli, included in the series «Biblioteca storica degli economisti italiani» - belongs to.
It marks and implements a historic approach to study - as the introduction states - «from a historical point of view some themes of the Italian policy about higher education between 1900 and 1942 and their effects on a specific side of Italian culture» (p. 10). The introduction, which is written by Piero Barucci, Simone Misiani and Manuela Mosca, sheds light particularly on the relationship between the universities, considered as the main source of culture in a society, and politics
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