This unique and original work contends that, despite the differences between Marshallian and Schumpeterian thinking, they both present formidable challenges to a broad type of social science beyond economics, particularly under the influence of the German historical school. In a departure from...

This highly illuminating book marks a significant stage in our growing understanding of how the development of national traditions of economic thought has been affected by both internal and external factors.

The historical reconstructions of the theories of Optimum Currency Areas (OCA) are usually biased by the underlying theoretical and policy orientation of their authors, they often provide a sort of internalist explanation of advancement in economic theory (assuming that economic theory evolves...

Nel 1989 il processo di integrazione europea subisce una rapida accelerazione. Il Consiglio Europeo approva Il Rapporto Delors che stabilisce una precisa strategia per il raggiungimento dell’Unione economica e monetaria. Il Governo Britannico cerca di ostacolare l’ipotesi di una moneta unica...

Facts, theories, and policies can be considered as the vertices of a triangle. While many contributions explore along the edges of such triangle, between couples of poles, we claim that the history of economics thought is fundamentally interested in looking within the whole area of the triangle....

<title>Abstract</title> The economic literature is giving new attention to Lionel Robbins' main contributions to economic theory, confined for several decades to the <italic>Essay</italic>, systematically misunderstood as the manifesto of the epistemology of neoclassical economics, where its underlying ontology characterized...

<title>Abstract</title> In <italic>The Economics of Welfare</italic>, Pigou develops the idea of what will be widely known as ‘Pigouvian tax’. Together with the concept of externality, they constituted two of the most important founding elements of modern welfare economics. Many have suggested that, on the way he treated...

The first 1947 meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society is considered the date of birth of neoliberalism. But the neoliberal thought after WWII is the result of fervent intellectual efforts in the previous decades. The paper aims at highlighting the role of Luigi Einaudi to the making of the...