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Two minds that never met: Frank H. knight on john M. keynes once again — A documentary note
2016
This note presents new archival evidence about Frank H. Knight’s views on John M. Keynes. The relevant material is composed of a series of lecture notes taken by Perham C. Nahl in Frank H. Knight’s course on Business Cycles at the University of California at Berkeley in the fall of 1936. It emerges from the notes that the methodological gap between Keynes and Knight was irreducible, which explains the harsh tone of Knight’s published review of The General Theory. Connected to this is Knight’s strenuous defense of the ‘postulates of classical political economy’ as criticized by Keynes in chapter 2 of his book, an argument that was better expounded in the classroom than in the review. However…
Frank H. Knight on social values in economic consumption: an archival note
2020
We reproduce an unpublished address on “Social Values in Economic Consumption” which Knight prepared for a SSRC Conference in June 1931. This material sheds new light on Knight in two respects. First, anticipating what is known as the relative income hypothesis, Knight indicated that a general increase in income, not only leaves the individual’s relative position in society unaltered but makes her/his situation worse off due to the peculiar characteristics of the market for “personal services.” Second, this address provides further evidence of how, in spite of some substantial methodological differences, Knight’s research interests converged with those of the institutionalists.
Committenze ospitaliere d'arte decorativa siciliana. Coralli barocchi e argenti rococò
2016
Il contributo analizza manufatti d'arte decorativa siciliana, in particolare coralli barocchi e argenti rococò, commissionati da Cavalieri dell'Ordine di Malta che oggi si trovano in importanti collezioni melitensi. The essay deals with Sicilian decorative artefacts, in particular baroque corals and rococo silverware, commissioned by Knights of the Order of Malta, which are now found in important collections in Malta.
Arti Decorative tra Sicilia e Malta dal XVI al XVIII secolo. Artisti e capolavori siciliani riscoperti dagli archivi e dalle collezioni dell'Isola de…
La tesi nasce dal tentativo di colmare un vuoto storiografico negli studi delle relazioni artistiche e culturali tra Sicilia e Malta. L’intento primario è stato quello di riportare alla luce manufatti d’arte decorativa siciliana sull’Isola dei Cavalieri principalmente relativi al periodo della loro illuminata permanenza (1530-1798), cercando nello stesso tempo di ritessere le trame della storia alla ricerca di artisti, soprattutto orafi e argentieri, che ivi si erano momentaneamente o definitivamente trasferiti per praticare la propria arte e trarne profitto. The thesis aims to fill a void in the historiographical studies about the artistic and cultural relations between Sicily and Malta. T…
“A certain amount of ‘recantation’”: On the origins of Frank H. Knight’s antipositivism
2016
The aim of this paper is to investigate in some detail the origins of Knight’s antipositism and to assess the main influences that brought him to a change in methodological perspective after 1921. As importantly, what follows is also an attempt to increase our general understanding of the methodological debates taking place during the early decades of the last century and to shed new light on the inherently pluralistic character of US interwar economics. This paper is organized as follows: the first section outlines Knight’s methodological views as presented in his early works; the second section discusses Knight’s “recantation” and his attack on behavioristic social science; the third sect…
ESPLORANDO IL MEDIOEVO: HENRY GALLY KNIGHT E LA SICILIA
2018
This essay is dedicated to the figure of Henry Gally Knight, a well-known british expert of medieval architecture, who decided to reach Sicily in 1836 to complete his Norman architecture investigations, together with the architect George Moore. During his stay in the island, besides visiting more traditional landmarks of classical antiquity, Gally Knight’s specific interests will lead him not only to study prestigious architectural complexes like Monreale and Cefalù, but also to trace the medieval vestiges even of the island’s inner parts, such as Randazzo, Maniace, Troina. Gally Knight’s tour and the esulting volumes he published – The Normans in Sicily: being a Sequel to “An architectural…
L’inventario dei giogali del cavaliere Fra’ Alessio di Ferro (1700-80): alcune considerazioni sull’oreficeria tra Sicilia e Malta
2019
The article deals with the inventory, in part unpublished, of 1763 of the jewels owned by the knight of Saint John Fra 'Alessio di Ferro, which is located in the State Archives in Trapani. He was an illustrious exponent of one of the most prominent families in the centuries of the city of Trapani linked to the island of Malta. The inventory offers the opportunity to reflect on typologies, materials and styles most in vogue between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Mediterranean jewellery and, consequently, the inspiration for some transversal reflections concerning the history of the male jewelry, still little explored, among Sicily and Malta.
STUDYING INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS AT CHICAGO IN THE 1930S: THE CASE OF ARTHUR BLOOMFIELD
2013
VESTIGIA SARACENE E NORMANNE PER ILLUSTRARE "THE NORMANS IN SICILY"
2021
In questa edizione di “Saracenic and Norman remains” si è voluta porre l’attenzione, attraverso la traduzione in lingua italiana della prefazione e della descrizione delle tavole, sulla parte meno presa in considerazione del volume, abitualmente considerato soltanto l’elegante repertorio iconografico a corredo del resoconto del viaggio in Sicilia di Henry Gally Knight, pubblicato due anni prima. Un’operazione non soltanto di “traduzione”, ma di riflessione critica sulla maturazione del pensiero storiografico di Gally Knight intorno all’architettura medievale siciliana, “saracena” e normanna in prima istanza, di cui “Saracenic and Norman remains” rappresenta un’ulteriore sviluppo in relazion…
Joannici w Łosiowie w średniowieczu
2022
Łosiów to dzisiaj wieś w województwie opolskim, w powiecie brzeskim, przy drodze z Opola do Brzegu. Jej historia jest znacznie starsza i sięga średniowiecza. Początki i rozwój tej wioski związane są z historią zakonu rycerskiego joannitów. Bracia zapisali się w historii Dolnego i Górnego Śląska na wiele stuleci, zarówno zbierając fundusze na wojny z niewiernymi, jak i przez gospodarcze eksploatowanie przyznanych im ziem, czy wreszcie służąc duchowo mieszkańcom tych dwóch regionów. Między XIII a XIV wiekiem joannici starali się zbudować wokół Łosiowa blok swoich majątków ziemskich opartych o linie Odry i nysy Kłodzkiej. Oprócz Łosiowa obejmował on opiekę nad kościołami w Wierzchu i Brzegu, m…