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"Introduction" to "Economists and War"
No full textWar and economic power have been interwoven in the thought of scholars since the beginnings of economic science, and views on the role of war in the economy have shifted dramatically as the world order has changed. The centenary of World War I has offered the opportunity for increased reflection on this topic, particularly as the war itself stimulated new directions for both research and the development of theory.
Economists and War brings together expert contributors who are united in their commitment to exploring this classic subject from innovative and heterodox points of view. The chapters presented in the book delve into a wide range of perspectives from Japan in the Second World War and Italy in the First; the debate on State intervention among German-speaking authors to the debate on the economic bases of perpetual peace; and from Keynes, who wrote on the ‘irrationality of war’, to Sismondi, who saw war as an opportunity for economic development, and not only for nation-states.
This volume is essential reading for scholars of the history of economic thought, international political economy and intellectual history. It is also of great interest to those studying military and naval history
Economists and War. A heterodox perspective
No full textWar and economic power have been interwoven in the thought of scholars since the beginnings of economic science, and views on the role of war in the economy have shifted dramatically as the world order has changed. The centenary of World War I has offered the opportunity for increased reflection on this topic, particularly as the war itself stimulated new directions for both research and the development of theory.
Economists and War brings together expert contributors who are united in their commitment to exploring this classic subject from innovative and heterodox points of view. The chapters presented in the book delve into a wide range of perspectives from Japan in the Second World War and Italy in the First; the debate on State intervention among German-speaking authors to the debate on the economic bases of perpetual peace; and from Keynes, who wrote on the ‘irrationality of war’, to Sismondi, who saw war as an opportunity for economic development, and not only for nation-states.
This volume is essential reading for scholars of the history of economic thought, international political economy and intellectual history. It is also of great interest to those studying military and naval history
How to Pay for the War: Military Spending and War Funding in Italian Economic Thought (1890–1918)
No full textThis essay examines Italian Economic thought regarding military spending and
war finance between the end of colonial expansion and the end of the World War I.
In the last decades of the nineteenth century, most Italian economists held
anti-militarist opinions. In particular, the Giornale degli Economisti proposed a
reorganization of the national army in the direction of reducing costs and inefficiencies,
acquiring a central role for liberal and democratic political components
unfavourable to rearmament and colonial expansion. The defeat at Adua (1896)
marked the peak of militant anti-militarism among Italian economists. This antimilitarist
front was broken only at beginning of the twentieth century, when the
colonial problem came to the fore in the context of economic expansion, under
Giolitti’s governments. In this new political context (concluded with the Italian
conquest of Libya, in 1911), military spending was utilized to support the growth
of national industry, and public opinion, motivated by nationalist groups, began
to show consensus on colonial expansion. Italian economists focused attention
on the colonial economy and the financial means required for the war effort. The
experience of the Libyan colonial war was at the basis of Federico Flora’s essay
on war finance, the first systematic treatise on this topic published in Italy (Flora,
1912). Flora proposed a pragmatic view of the problem of war finance, in contrast
with ‘Smithian dogmatism’, predominant among Italian economists. The experience
of World War I confirmed Flora’s opinion that modern conflicts could be
subsidized only with great expansion of the public debt, in the form of loan and
paper-money circulation. However, most economists proposed again, during and
after the war, Smithian dogmatism as the best financial policy (Einaudi, 1914;
Pantaleoni, 1916)
CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE DI STUDI PER LA CELEBRAZIONE DEL IV CENTENARIO DELLA PUBBLICAZIONE DEL BREVE TRATTATO DI ANTONIO SERRA 1 6 1 3 - 201 3, Napoli 11-12 ottobre 2013
No full textM. Amato, Il bivio della moneta. Problemi monetari e pensiero del denaro nel Settecento italiano, Egea, Istituto di storia economica dell'Università Bocconi, Milano, 1999
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Un sistema imperfetto: il Gold Standard e i suoi critici (1870-1914)
No full textThis paper examines the debate on the gold standard from 1870 to 1914. In this period the gold standard becomes the world’s monetary regime, but this political success is disputed by a considerable part of the coeval economic theory. The different critical positions showed the imperfections of the gold standard and the critical economists proposed several solutions. The most radical solutions wished a return to the bimetallic regime or the adoption of experimental system, like the symmetallism proposed by Marshall. Other critical positions were direct towards attempts of reforms, which leaded to the definition of the principles of the gold exchange standard, destined later on to regulate, without success, the international monetary regime after the World War One, and then to be reproposed at the Bretton Woods Conference and to become the basis of a long period of monetary stability
La moneta del mondo
No full textI progetti di riforma del sistema monetario internazionale dal crollo del gold standard alla crisi dell'euro.
Il volume colma una lacuna nella letteratura, delineando una sintesi dei diversi progetti di riforma del sistema monetario internazionale
Il giovane Gramsci fra liberismo e socialismo. Luca Michelini, "Marxismo, liberismo, rivoluzione: saggio sul giovane Gramsci 1915-1920" (La Città del Sole, Napoli), 2012
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