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The economist and the secret agent. Strategies to introduce the British model of society into Sicily of 1812.
2021
The paper explores the events which determined the transition of Sicily from the ancien regime towards a modern liberal society. The key figures selected to understand this historical moment are the economist Paolo Balsamo, professor at Regia Università di Palermo, and the Scottish gentleman Gould Francis Leckie, whose profile as landowner and scholar concealed his intelligence activity in Sicily. This essay shows how British policy and Sicilian ruling class conceived a plan to transform the island by importing a model of capitalist society from the United Kingdom and entrusted it to the cultural and political role exercised by Balsamo.
Note a margine di un simposio sul contributo di Piero Sraffa alla storia del pensiero economico
2000
Recensione di A. Roncaglia (2000). Piero Sraffa. His life, thought and cultural heritage. London: Routledge
2002
The 1947 Meat Shortage and Modigliani’s Meat Plan: The Shaping of Public Economic Discourse in Postwar America
2010
This paper aims to assess Modigliani’s contribution to the American post war debate over price controls and economic stabilization. We will focus on his unpublished “Plan for meeting the domestic meat shortage without price control and rationing”. Elaborated by Modigliani in the Summer of 1947 the plan was designed to cope with meat shortage arising from crop failures aggravated by the implementation of the European Recovery Program. It was based on a system of taxes and subsidies aiming to realize a proper distribution of disposable income and to warrant a minimum meat consumption without encroaching market mechanisms and consumers’ freedom. In the paper we will describe the contents of th…
Considerazioni sulla finanza pubblica italiana tra il XIX ed il XX secolo
2015
This essay deals with the doctrinal debate emerging from articles and editorials by econoil mists published on newspapers such as Corriere della Sera, Il Giornale d'Italia, Il Sole, La Tribuna, Il Mattino, Il Secolo. The debate increased interest in items of public finance from 1890 to the rise of fascism in Italy. During thirty years, public debt, tax reform, fiscal matters, finance during war-time and problems relating to rail transport were the main debated topics. These issues show the economic and financial structure of the country in order to better understand the development opportunities which Italy enjoyed introducing the reform necessary to modernize the economic framework.
INTRODUCTION TO A SYMPOSIUM ON ROBERT HEILBRONER AT 100
2019
Recensione MASSIMO M. AUGELLO, Gli economisti accademici italiani dell'ottocento. Una storia "documentale"
2015
The review presents the book Gli economisti accademici italiani dell'ottocento. Una storia "documentale" describing the contents and showing its historiographical view on the process of institutionalization of economics in Italy.