Search results for "PENSIERO"

Reshaping Monetary Policy after the Great Crash: John H. Williams at the NY FED

2020

John H. Williams was an influential economist and central banker in the interwar years. A Harvard University professor since 1929 specialized in international trade and monetary economics, he joined the NY Fed in 1933 and became its vice-President in 1936. This paper aims to provide a general assessment of Williams’ contributions to monetary and fiscal policy during his tenure at the NY FED. We shall try to do so by following a twofold perspective: i. establish connections between Williams’ more theoretical works, his interpretations of the great depression and some policy decisions enacted by the FED in the 1930s; ii. provide new archival evidence on what was the part Williams played in th…

Che imprevisti a Sunny Island!

2015

Attraverso un divertente racconto di fantasia, il lettore avrà modo di scoprire i principi del Pensiero Sistemico e familiarizzare con alcuni concetti fondamentali, tra i quali: le relazioni direttamente e inversamente proporzionali, i feedback, i limiti alla crescita, gli effetti a breve e lungo termine, i comportamenti contro-intuitivi. Il lettore potrà allenare la sua mente a cogliere la complessità di fenomeni o eventi che, a uno sguardo superficiale, potrebbero invece apparire semplici da comprendere e da gestire. Il libro si rivolge a ragazzi dai nove anni in su, a insegnanti delle scuole di primarie e secondarie che progettano di presentare i principi del pensiero sistemico ai propri…

Francesco Ferrara

2010

voce biografica su Francesco Ferrara

STUDYING INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS AT CHICAGO IN THE 1930S: THE CASE OF ARTHUR BLOOMFIELD

2013

Gaetano Martino 1900-1967

2011

Biografia dello statista Gaetano Martino. Profilo politico, pensiero politico di una figura chiave del 900 della politica europea

Concetta Spoto, La Bancocrazia a sistema di governo. Associazionismo e credito in Giuseppe Corvaja (1785-1860)

2010

Recensione a Concetta Spoto, La Bancocrazia a sistema di governo. Associazionismo e credito in Giuseppe Corvaja (1785-1860)

Integrazione

2007

HARVARD MEETS THE CRISIS: THE MONETARY THEORY AND POLICY OF LAUCHLIN B. CURRIE, JACOB VINER, JOHN H. WILLIAMS, AND HARRY D. WHITE

2015

The paper discusses the interpretation of the Great Depression and the policy decision making by four Harvard economists: Lauchlin B. Currie, Jacob Viner, John H. Williams, and Harry D. White. All were eminent scholars in the field of monetary and international economics, and were deeply involved in policy decisions during the New Deal. We will discuss how their Harvard training provided them with a common methodological and analytical perspective, and how this common perspective translated into specific policies when they moved from the academia to public service in the US administration. Their interpretation of the causes of the Great Depression and their policy proposals show the eclecti…

Rational vs historical reconstructions. A note on Blaug

2003

The paper focuses on Blaug's distinction between rational and historical reconstruction within the historiography of economics. Blaug's distinction is shown to be sterile and misleading and his definitions of no avail to clear thinking. Historical reconstruction (as defined by Blaug) is en empty box for reasons which are basically theoretical and not simply practical (as Blaug seems to hold). Moreover, Blaug's primary polemical target is Whig historiography and not rational reconstruction: the two concepts coincide only by means of an ad hoc definition. Blaug's criticism does not apply to other uses of the concept of rational reconstruction such as that proposed by Lakatos.

AN ECONOMIC APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF LAW IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: GAETANO FILANGIERI AND LA SCIENZA DELLA LEGISLAZIONE

2011

This work presents the elements of economic analysis of law that occur in the thought of Gaetano Filangieri. In the pages of La Scienza della Legislazione the Neapolitan writer develops a utilitarian and economic investigation that pays attention to the judgments individuals make over social phenomena at the margin point. A proof of this development can be found in the explanation of the principle of decreasing marginal utility, argued in Head XXXI of Book III, which represents one of the most effective demonstrations that can be found before the end of nineteenth-century literature. The most remarkable fact is that, of all the five parts that compose the Filangierian work, the most rich in…