The article is part of the special issue of the journal, including the proceedings of the conference "Albert Hirschman scienziato sociale" held in Rome at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. The author discusses the more typically "political" aspects of Hirschman's thought.

The article is part of the special issue of the journal, including the proceedings of the conference "Albert Hirschman scienziato sociale" held in Rome at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. The author discusses the dissenting nature of Hirschman's thought: against economic orthodoxy, against...

The article introduces the special issue including the proceedings of the conference "Albert Hirschman scienziato sociale" held in Rome at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. The author briefly recalls Hirschman's affiliation with the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the oldest scientific academy...

The article is part of the special issue of the journal, including the proceedings of the conference "Albert Hirschman scienziato sociale" held in Rome at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. The author briefly recalls Hirschman's many relations to Italy: both family and professional and academic...

The article is part of the special issue of the journal, including the proceedings of the conference "Albert Hirschman scienziato sociale" held in Rome at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. The author comments upon his personal relations (both family ties and professional relations) with...

The article is part of the special issue of the journal, including the proceedings of the conference "Albert Hirschman scienziato sociale" held in Rome at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. The author discusses the "sociological" aspects of Hirschman's thought, stressing at the same time...

The author, currently Governor of the Bank of Italy, recalls his professional and intellectual relations with the late Luigi Spaventa, as well as the latter's involvement in Italy's government and in the activities of the Bank of Italy.

Text of a speech held at the University of Rome in 1965. The author discusses the economic policy of Fascism, claiming that several of its characteristic features, e.g. the policy of industrial and financial bailouts, the policy of industry cartels and firms' groups, and protectionism, were part...

The low growth rate of Italy, also in international and European context, has led to compare the 50s with the last ten or fifteen. The analysis shows that, apart from the initial liberalization of international trade, the period that saw the most vigorous growth in Italy was characterized from a...

This article is intended to build a bridge between economic history and the history of economic thought in the Italian nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Are chosen and in-depth episodes and phases concerning the development, stability, income distribution in the Italian economy during the two...