The social encyclical Rerum Novarum closely links the question of poverty with that of property, and invokes Thomas Aquinas. But on closer examination, the reasoning developed in favour of property departs from the scholastic thinker, since it maintains more affinities with the liberal tradition...

The Italian economist Enrico Barone (1859- 1924) is best known for his contributions to marginal productivity theory and the socialist planning debate. This paper analyzes Barone’s contributions to the theory of perfect competition which are largely ignored in the secondary literature. It...

The paper informs about the work on the edition of Piero Sraffa's Unpublished Papers and Correspondence which will be published by Cambridge University Press. The hugeness and great complexity of the material are stressed and a number of “icebergs” are identified that have to be...