The aim of this paper is to systematically enquire into the relationship Robbins sets in his writings - prior to the Essay and further brought out in several subsequent works - between 'economic science' and 'political economy' in order to understand the role of each in the work of the...

Contrary to what happened in the Seventies, when the parallel currency approach to monetary integration in Europe turned out to be the winning strategy to assist the political decision by Germany and France to revitalize an agonizing integration process, a similar proposal officially made by the...

Increasing trade interdependence among East-Asian countries suggests the urge to design some monetary arrangement to stabilize the macroeconomic framework of an extremely heterogeneously growing area. The paper reviews the literature and analyses several directions of East-Asian integration...

When Robbins' Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science was first published, it was mostly criticized for depriving economists of an important professional market (policy advice) and for detaching economics from policy considerations. Most critics considered Robbins' Essay as the...

The paper reviews the recent literature and debates on the reform of the international monetary system which has followed the global financial crisis and the subsequent Chinese proposal for enhancing the role of Special Drawing Rights

Recently, after the financial and currency crises that hit Asian economies at the end of last millennium and the foundation in Europe of the single currency, a renewed interest towards integration processes in Asia has grown (Whyplosz 2001). In the last four years a vivid scientific debate on...

In the very moment when a Bretton Woods II is worldwide demanded to assist the recovery from the recent US-originated financial crisis, it is evident how the temporary insulation of Indian financial system from the global crisis is a tempting occasion to focus on national responses and defences...

Increasing trade interdependence among East-Asian countries suggests the urge to design some monetary arrangement to stabilize the macroeconomic framework of an extremely heterogeneously growing area. The paper reviews the literature and analyses several directions of East-Asian integration...

At the end of the Seventies, a new consensus was taking the lead in economic theory on the perfect rationality of agents, the ineffectiveness of economic policies and, therefore, on the possibility to sustain experiments of monetary integration worldwide. Among the few Authors who still believed...