... to agricultural economists, and how they accomplished it. The peasant way of life varied greatly across southern Italy. Knowledge about local varieties and local specificities was embedded contextually and was available only to locals themselves. Observation thus coincided with translation of local features...

...Franco Ferraresi; Giuseppe Ferrari Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 References Allen , K. J. , and B. McLennon Regional Problems and Politics in Italy and France . London, 1970 . Fuà , G. Notes on Italian Economic Growth, 1961–1964 . Milan, 1966 . Fuà...

...Antonella Rancan The paper discusses Modigliani, Brumberg, and Ando’s life cycle hypothesis and its difficult acceptance in Italy over the 1960s and 1970s. The increasing attention to the effects of income redistribution on consumption coupled with the strong influence that post-Keynesian economics...

...Piero Barucci Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 PIERO BARUCCI is Professor of the History of Economic Doctrines at the University of Florence. The Spread of Marginalism in Italy, 1871-1890 Piero Barucci...

... . Cassata Francesco . 2006 . Il Fascismo Razionale. Corrado Gini fra Scienza e Polit-ica . Rome : Carocci . Cassata Francesco . 2011 . Building the New Man: Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth-Century Italy . Budapest : CEU . Dalton Hugh . 1920...

... to the money function in the capitalist economy. Correspondence may be addressed to Rosario Patalano, University of Naples “Federico II,” Department of Law, via Mezzocannone 16, 80100, Naples, Italy; e-mail: [email protected] . I am especially grateful to two anonymous referees and to the editor, Kevin D...

...Antonella Rancan Abstract This article deals with the consequences of World War II on the study of national income and the changing approach to economic planning in Italy. It concentrates on Corrado Gini's original definition of national income in terms of well-being with respect to the meaning...

... reformism. At the same time, as someone who had been exposed to the Progressive Era cultural milieu, he could not completely divorce himself from the earlier decades’ preoccupation with the biological quality of individuals. Correspondence may be addressed to Luca Fiorito, University of Palermo (Italy...

... contributors is very wide: it covers the US, India, Latin America, Japan, China, Africa, the Arab world, and Europe (Italy, Austria, UK, Russia, and Soviet Union). The historical extension is also incredibly broad: it goes from ancient India (fifth century BCE) to the twenty- first century. The women...

...Nicolas Brisset; Raphaël Fèvre This article examines François Perroux’s corporatist thought from the interwar period to the Vichy period, in the light of his travels in Italy, Germany, Austria, and Portugal from 1934 to 1935. We will show that Perroux’s critical analysis of what he called “fascist...

... of tools devised by economics and statistics, the central part of the essay focuses on Corrado Gini (1884–1965). He was Italy's leading econometrician and the main reference of the international network of econometricians until the 1940s. Other Italian members of the newly formed Econometric Society...

... for Alfred Marshall and A. C. Pigou. In Italy the double taxation of savings was endorsed by Luigi Einaudi and was the object of heated debate among Italian public finance scholars. The expenditure tax should have followed from the theorem of double taxation as a corollary, and indeed, it was proposed...

...Mario Pomini; Gianfranco Tusset Between the two world wars, the theory of general economic equilibrium received notable impetus in Italy from the work of the Paretian School. This consisted of a small, but very active, group of economists, whose best-known members at the time were Luigi Amoroso...

... of European postwar reconstruction and the creation of a new world economic order. Given his deep knowledge and prewar experiences, Italy and France were his first areas of specialization, although Hirschman soon contributed to the analysis of the Marshall Plan, the shaping of the European Payments Union...

... in Italia dal 1943 a1 1955. By Piero Barucci. Bologna: I1 Mulino, 1978. Pp. 456. 5,000 lire. It was at the end of the 1950’s that the rest of the world was so highly im- pressed with Italy’s effort at reconstruction from the destruction of the war that phrases such as “the miracle...

... Synthesis of Economics and Sociology . By Alforso de Pietri-Tonelli and George Bousquet. London: Macmillan. Nardozzi , Giangiacomo . 1994 . Money and Credit: Twenty Years of Debate in Italy (1970–1990). Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review 188 ( March ): 3 –51. Negri , Zamagni...

...Antonella Rancan [email protected] Albert Ando: A Bibliography of His Writings . Edited by Clara Dall'Osso , Valentina Memoli , and Rosanna Visca . Rome : Banca d'Italia , 2022 . 111 pp. Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 The Bank of Italy has...