Luigi Ceriani (1912-1999) was the founder of Moneta e Credito and BNL Quarterly Review, and their editor for the first forty years of their lives. The article illustrates his life history, in particular his role in the founding and in the successive life of the two journals as well as in the...

The BNL Quarterly Review was born in 1947, at a time of vigorous renewal of the Bank itself. One of the key problems in the aftermath of the Second World War was to improve and extend the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro's reputation abroad. The Bank was quite well-known in Spain but very little in...

The paper outlines the intellectual biography of Paolo Sylos Labini, a great economist with strong civic ideals. After recalling his education (in Rome, then at Harvard with Schumpeter and at Cambridge with Robertson), the paper illustrates his contributions in a variety of fields, ranging from...