In the political background that prevailed in Italy after the unification of the country in 1860, many economists were attracted by the prospect of playing an active role in politics. In particular, thirty academic economists became MPs between 1860 and 1923. Many of them became ministers and...

The international community of historians of economic thought is not essentially divided between 'absolutists' and 'relativists', or between 'continuists' and 'discontinuists Rather it is the specific content of the metier d'historien which makes the difference. This paper aims at highlighting...

This paper examines the texts Jeremy Bentham wrote in 1788 and 1789 for the upcoming meeting of the Estates-General in France, focusing on the arrangement of a representative assembly. Bentham examined the problems of constitutional choice with an economic method, answering the fundamental...