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...

The Banca Nazionale del Lavoro 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...