"This thought-provoking monograph connects the idea of civil economy in Italian economic thought to the work of Thomas Aquinas. Its main thesis is that there is an alternative spirit of capitalism, with Catholic origins, and which has been carried through to the modern day via the Neapolitan...

Value -- The economics of the individual -- Fundamental theorem of the transformation of any given number of goods -- Final degree of utility of instrumental goods -- Cases where the final degree of utility of money is approximately constant -- Relationship between the final degree of utility of...

"Drawing in particular on the work of Sraffa, Smith, Ricardo and Marx, the essays in this volume explore the characteristic features of the Classical economists' approach to economic problems, and the renewal of interest in that approach in modern times. In recent years, new material has been...

1. Is there a "classical" alternative to marginalist theory? : some introductory remarks / Heinz D. Kurz -- 2. Sraffa's hits and misses / Paul A. Samuelson -- 3. Professor Samuelson on Sraffa and the classical economists / Pierangelo Garegnani -- 4. Classical and neoclassical harmonies and...