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Gli autori francesi nelle prime due serie della “Biblioteca dell’Economista”
2015
This essay deals with the «Biblioteca dell'Economista», the collection of translated economic texts by Francesco Ferrara. The article examines the role that the editorial series attaches to the French economists and their works. A particular attention is devoted to Ferrara's introductions of books in which the Sicilian scholar analyzes the life and the thought of the authors and compare them to his economic theory and idea of the economist's profession.
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.
La Sicilia nel primo decennio unitario. Il partito regionista e l’impegno politico degli economisti isolani
2013
L’articolo approfondisce l’azione politica e parlamentare del “Partito regionista”, un movimento d’ispirazione autonomista sorto al momento dell’annessione della Sicilia al Regno d’Italia, che rivendicò per l’isola un’ampia autonomia regionale all’interno delle nuove istituzioni unitarie. Fondatori e leader di questa formazione furono Francesco Ferrara e gli economisti della scuola liberale siciliana che, durante il decennio 1860-70, con le loro idee economiche ne ispirarono il programma e le scelte politiche. The article deals with the political activity of the “Partito regionista”, a political movement which, during the first decade after Italian unification, claimed for a large self-gove…
Recensione di Heinz D. Kurz (2016). Economic Thought. A Brief History (translated by Jeremiah Riemer). New York: Columbia University Press, pp. ix + …
2017
L'originalité de juglar
1966
This is a version, slightly corrected in 2011 with regard to form, of a thèse complémentaire defended at the University of Paris in March 1966 (at the time, writing a "complementary thesis" in a domain adjacent to, but distinct from, economics proper was a requirement added to the doctorate in economics for participating in the national competition to become a university professor in economics). The subject of the thesis, supposedly in the domain of economic history, had been proposed by Professor Jean Lhomme. The contribution of Clément Juglar (1819-1905), whose name has remained associated with the business cycle, was deemed particularly important and original by Joseph Schumpeter in his …