The paper explores the feedback Italian liberals2 established between economic integration and development during that particular epoch in European history which opens with the debate on national customs unions and closes with the short-lived triumph of international trade liberalization...

The paper reconstructs the broad economic planning debate of the early nineteensixties through the more representative Italian newspapers. As it appears evident from my review, the obstacles that economic planning met were due mainly to exogenous factors such as the weakness of the political...

In this paper the main topics of Saint-Simon’s thought are reviewed, with special attention to his conception of social classes and hierarchies, his notion of capitalist leadership, and his foreseeing of the future fabric of society. In Italy, however, rather than the master’s thought, it...