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Reply to Parrinello
No full textIn the paper we reply to some criticisms raised by Sergio Parrinello to the book "Pasinetti and the Classical-Keynesians" (C.U.P.2021) edited by Enrico Bellino and Sebastiano Nerozzi. The main topics raised in the paper focus on some interpretative issues concerning Pasinetti's model of structural economic dynamics
Scienza normale e scienza straordinaria nel marxismo italiano (1892-1960)
No full textI concetti dell’epistemologia kuhniana ben si adattano anche alla vicenda
del marxismo, in particolare al complesso tema della “revisione”
della teoria di Karl Marx. In questa prospettiva il revisionismo può essere
considerato come un caso di “scienza straordinaria”, che descrive
un particolare momento di crisi e trasformazione di un paradigma di
riferimento (la dottrina marxista) e della sua “scienza normale”, intesa
come approfondimento e di divulgazione del paradigma e che coincide,
nel caso del marxismo, con la dottrina ortodossa della Seconda e della
Terza Internazionale. In Italia la vicenda revisionista, nata precocemente e nutrita da
eterogenee istanze filosofiche, si differenziò ben presto, negli esiti della
critica, in due opposte componenti: da un lato, l’isolato ed originale
contributo di Antonio Graziadei, rivolto alle antiche teorie del surplus
fisico, individuate come soluzioni più appropriate alle aporie del valore
marxista; dall’altro lato, il più consistente gruppo di teorici revisionisti,
da Benedetto Croce a Francesco Saverio Merlino, Enrico Leone e Arturo
Labriola, che cercavano, non senza differenze, nei teoremi marginalisti
una risposta adeguata alla crisi marxista.Questa fase creativa della vicenda marxista termina con la rivoluzione
d’ottobre che apre una nuova fase di “scienza normale” e di consolidamento
del paradigma marxista nella interpretazione leninista. Si
apre così la fase dell’ortodossia stalinista e una nuova stagione di vero e
proprio dogmatismo dottrinario intorno alla categoria del capitalismo
monopolistico di Stato, evoluzione del concetto leninista di imperialismo,
che di fatto isolerà il movimento marxista dal coevo dibattito sulla
rivoluzione keynesiana. La prevalente impostazione “umanistica” e storicista
dei marxisti italiani contribuirà ad acuire ulteriormente questo isolamento.
Su questo quadro dogmatico e stagnante del marxismo italiano
si abbatterà, dirompente, la ricostruzione neo-ricardiana di Piero Sraffa
che assumerà il carattere di una rivoluzione scientifica liquidatoria del
paradigma marxista
Merce e sfruttamento come strumenti di analisi del capitalismo
No full textIl saggio mette a fuoco l’importanza, per comprendere il mondo di oggi, di due fondamentali categorie marxiane: il concetto di merce e quello, ad esso intimamente legato, di sfruttamento del lavoro
The Political Economy of Luigi Pasinetti
No full textFor many decades, we have been closely associated with
Pasinetti’s research, though in different ways and in different capacities
due to our belonging to different academic age cohorts. Through all those
years, we have had many opportunities to discuss with him his contributions
to economic theory, which we have always found greatly inspiring,
even when following research tracks different from his. In a nutshell, we
could say we all share with Pasinetti a deep commitment to the structural
dynamics approach to economic theory and political economy.Our close
personal and intellectual acquaintancewith Pasinetti makes it difficult for
us to write a standard comprehensive introduction, which would have to
consider the manifold areas of our collaboration with him and involvement
with his lines of research. On many occasions, we wrote essays
dealingwith specific features of his approach to economic theory. For this
reason, we decided to focus our attention on what are, in our view,
Pasinetti’s key contributions to theory-building and to highlight the
unifying train of thought flowing through all of them
Jacob Viner’s Reminiscences from the New Deal (February 11, 1953)
Full text linkThis paper presents and reproduces an unpublished oral history interview given by Jacob Viner in 1953. The interview released by Viner for the Columbia Oral History Project gives us a valuable opportunity to throw light on his advisory activity during the New Deal Era. In our introduction we attempt to make a critical appraisal of Viner's reminiscences and to state the contribution they can provide to our general knowledge of the period. In addition, we also attempt to find out some biographical and interpretative elements useful to understand Viner’s own vision and his contribution to important economic policy processes during the New Deal.
[Séminaire] L'interculturalità rivistata. Contenziosi commerciali e pluralità normativa nel Mediterraneo dell'epoca moderna
No full textDans le cadre du séminaire annuel du Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche de l'Università degli Studi di Palermo, Wolfgang Kaiser présentera (en Italien) le projet ERC ConfigMed, le 29 octobre 2015 (cliquer ici pour annonce). La séance sera présidée par Giovanna Fiume et les discussions seront animées par Pierfrancesco Asso, Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Ida Fazio, Rita Foti, Antonello Miranda, Sebastiano Nerozzi et Alessandra Pera
Doing Math in Mussolini’s Pocket: Ernesto Rossi and Fascist Public Finance (1926-1930)
No full textbstract · This essay deals with the brief but intense collaboration of Ernesto Rossi with the «Ri forma Sociale», a prestigious journal of economics and social sciences founded by Francesco Saverio
Nitti in 1894 and directed by Luigi Einaudi since 1908. Between 1926 and 1930, Rossi authored seven
long essays on issues of public fnance, applied economics, and economic statistics that have been
relatively neglected by historiography. The rereading of these contributions allows us to illuminate
some central moments in his training as an economist. This essay focuses on four articles he devoted
to a deep analysis of the Italian budget and public debt, recalculating public revenues and expenses,
with relation both to the accrual-based balance and the cash-based balance, in the attempt to make
them comparable year by year, despite relevant changes introduced in those years in accounting prac tices and norms. The highly technical character of this analysis did not hide the political message
underpinning Rossi’s fndings highlighting some signifcant inconsistencies and shortcomings in the
fscal policy pursued by Mussolini’s government. Its declared aims were to attain a balanced budget,
to reduce and consolidate the huge public debt, to secure monetary stability and, last but not least,
improve the transparency of public accounting practices. Rossi’s deep and accurate revision of the
public budget showed how these diferent but closely interlinked objectives, crucial for attaining and
maintaining middle-class consensus to the regime, were often betrayed, or, at least, pursued with little
determination and consistency
Building up a multilateral strategy for the United States: Alvin Hansen, Jacob Viner and the Council on Foreign Relations (1939-1945)
No full textBetween 1943 and 1947 a new economic order was founded, which aimed at implementing multilateral trade, international monetary cooperation and economic stability supported by government intervention. This paper describes the contribution provided to this process by a group of American economists working under the auspices of the Council on Foreign Relations and in close connection with the State Department. Since 1939 the Economic and Financial Group led by Jacob Viner and Alvin H. Hansen played an important role in designing strategic choices which concerned American economic interests in the post-war world and in preparing the ground for the establishment of such multilateral agencies as the IMF, the IBRD and the ITO-GATT system. In assessing Viner’s and Hansen’s views and proposals, this paper shows how different and competing approaches to economic theory and policy compromised and converged in supporting this outcome.Jacob Viner, Alvin Hansen, Bretton Woods, Council on Foreign Relations, Post-War Planning; State Department.
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