In the attempt to answer three (interrelated) questions, we concentrate on a crucial step in Goodwin's (RMG) life: his move from Cambridge, Mass. to Cambridge, UK. Why did RMG not get a permanent position at Harvard? How did RMG reach the decision to settle down in Cambridge, UK? Why was it that...

Two major trends in the world economy are international migration and environmental degradation. The object of the paper is to analyze the connection between these two trends, which have generally been analyzed in isolation. Here we represent a world economy in which the exploitation of natural...

In the paper I present and discuss an unpublished essay of Richard Goodwin found in the Goodwin’s Archive at the University of Siena on the theme of social philosophy. I will illustrate the main points of his text, briefly compare these late views with those entertained at the beginning of his...

Attilio da Empoli (1904-48) is a relatively unknown Italian economist who for various reasons, included a premature death, is not recognized as an innovative scholar. One of the main preoccupation of da Empoli’s scientific research was to analize and refine the concept of equilibrium. In the...

Questa nota si propone l'obiettivo di analizzare se, e in clic misura, la produttività del lavoro nell'economia italiana degli ultimi cinquantanni sia cresciuta lungo un sentiero convergente. La struttura dell'economia italiana presa in considerazione si compone di 21 attività, il cui livello...

In the paper I bring to the attention of the economists and historians of economic thought the idea of economic dynamics that one can found in the first book by Morishima published in 1950 but totally overlooked. It has a great interest not only because there it appears for the first time the...

Questa nota si propone l'obiettivo di analizzare se, e in clic misura, la produttività del lavoro nell'economia italiana degli ultimi cinquantanni sia cresciuta lungo un sentiero convergente. La struttura dell'economia italiana presa in considerazione si compone di 21 attività, il cui livello...

In the attempt to answer three (interrelated) questions, we concentrate on a crucial step in Goodwin’s (RMG) life: his move from Cambridge, Mass. to Cambridge, UK. Why did RMG not get a permanent position at Harvard? How did RMG reach the decision to settle down in Cambridge, UK? Why was it...