<title>Abstract</title> The profound crisis which occurred in economic theory in the period between the two wars forced the neoclassical economists to look in different directions. One of them was the corporate economic theory -- understood as a theory which asserted the fundamental role of the state in...

The Paretian tradition has been one of the most important research strands in the interwar period in Italy. It included a small but strong group of economists, among them the notable Luigi Amoroso and Giulio La Volpe. The more ambitious project carried out by the Paretians was the dynamization...

This paper aims to highlight the main features of Amoroso's reflections on macroeconomic dynamics to which he dedicated a large part of his scientific activity. He developed an original theory of business cycle and he formulated a dynamic generalisation of the Paretian theory of general economic...

Economics education is essential in all nations to prepare students for the changing world economy. The paper offers a description and an assessment of how secondary school economics is currently provided and how it ha changed over the last decades in Italy. The analysis covered some topics:...

In the mid 1980s there was a remarkable revival of interest in growth theory and once again this became a very active area of macroeconomic research. A relevant strand of this approach is characterized by the departure from the usual assumption of diminishing returns of capital or, more...

The period between the two World Wars was characterized by theoretical pluralism and the proliferation of research programs in economic dynamics. In this article, we consider the mathematical approach to building dynamic economics developed in the us in the twenties and in Italy in the following...