Search results for "Storia del pensiero economico"
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Survival Value and a Robust, Practical, Joyless Individualism: Thomas Nixon Carver, Social Justice, and Eugenics
2017
The aim of this paper is to provide a compressive assessment of Thomas Nixon Carver's thought—from his early formative years in the 1880s to his post WWII career as a journalist and pamphleteer. The main (albeit not exclusive) focus of this paper will be on the theoretical and philosophical coordinates of Carver's “new liberalism”—his own definition—and how this broad vision was intrinsically connected with an explicitly hierarchical and eugenic approach to human nature. Just as important, what follows is also an attempt to increase our general understanding of the extent in which eugenic considerations permeated the realm of political economy during the first decades of the last century an…
Method and analysis in Piero Sraffa's 1925 critique of Marshallian economics
2000
This paper provides an analysis of the logical structure and analytical content of Piero Sraffa's 1925 Italian paper, ‘Sulle relazioni fra costo e quantita prodotta’. It shows that Sraffa's criticism of the supply side of Marshall's theory of value in a competitive partial equilibrium model involves analytical and methodological issues. Endorsing an agressive methodology Sraffa logically reconstructs Marshall's model on variable returns to determine its empirical domain. He demonstrates that the latter encompasses only the empirically irrelevant cases of specific factor industries and specific external economies industries and that it cannot be generalized to non-specific factor industries …
Illuminismo giuridico e idee economiche nelle opere di Cesare Beccaria e di Gaetano Filangieri
2013
Questo saggio si propone di presentare il contributo che le idee economiche hanno offerto, nel metodo e nell’analisi, alla nascita dell’Illuminismo giuridico prendendo in considerazione l’esperienza italiana rappresentata al meglio da Beccaria e da Filangieri. Partiremo da una presentazione delle relazioni epistemologiche tra il pensiero economico e la teoria del diritto nel settecento per poi proseguire con l’approfondimento degli scrittori che abbiamo sopra menzionato. Sebbene sia possibile rilevare nelle opere dell’illuminismo la trattazione di una considerevole varietà di aspetti dei fenomeni giuridici che hanno dirette ed evidenti implicazioni con la realtà economica —riguardo la propr…
Financial Crises and Economic Depressions: An Introduction
2010
Recensione di Sraffa or an alternative economics, edited by Guglielmo Chiodi and Leonardo Ditta, Houndmills, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmi…
2009
Economisti in Parlamento (1861-1922)
2006
Herbert J. Davenport on Conspicuous Consumption and the Economics of Feminism
2019
This article analyzes Herbert J. Davenport’s discussions of conspicuous consumption and feminism. Even though these (typically) Veblenian topics represent two “episodes” in many respects disconnected with the central body of Davenport’s theoretical interests, the assessment of Davenport’s views on these matters enlarges our knowledge of the development of his thought. Our analysis shows how Davenport can be enrolled among the forerunners of the modern theory of positional goods. Moreover, our article offers some new findings on the impact of Veblen’s ideas on one of his closest students at the Chicago University.
I valori etici e religiosi nell'economia secondo Giuseppe Toniolo
2010
Toniolo pone al centro del discorso economico l'uomo valorizzandone la dignità, la libertà, l'eguaglianza morale, la corresponsabilità e l'eticità.
Was Frank Knight an institutionalist?
2005
This paper critically examines Geoffrey Hodgson's recent provocative claim about Frank Knight as being a member of American institutionalism in the interwar years. In the first section of the paper the authors attempt to provide a definition of institutionalism and to emphasize its meaning from a historiographic point of view. The second and third sections analyze the two main methodological struggles between Knight and the institutionalists, namely, the debate during the early 1020s over the use of instinct theory as an explanation of economic behavior, and the subsequent campaign led by Knight in the late 1920s and early 1930s against the behaviorist wing of American institutionalism à la…