The paper explores the feedback Italian liberals2 established between economic integration and development during that particular epoch in European history which opens with the debate on national customs unions and closes with the short-lived triumph of international trade liberalization...

The paper reconstructs the broad economic planning debate of the early nineteensixties through the more representative Italian newspapers. As it appears evident from my review, the obstacles that economic planning met were due mainly to exogenous factors such as the weakness of the political...

In this paper the main topics of Saint-Simon’s thought are reviewed, with special attention to his conception of social classes and hierarchies, his notion of capitalist leadership, and his foreseeing of the future fabric of society. In Italy, however, rather than the master’s thought, it...

Paolo Sylos Labini's Oligopoly Theory and Technical Progress (1957) is considered one of the major contributions to entry-prevention models, especially after Franco Modigliani's famous formalization. Nonetheless, Modigliani neglected Labini's major aim when reviewing his work (JPE, 1958),...

Modigliani's 1944 "Econometrica" article is considered one of the most important efforts to reconcile Keynes with classical economic thinking. The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the genesis of Modigliani's article and to reexamine its place in the construction of Neoclassical Synthesis....

This paper draws comparisons between the articles collected in a recent volume edited by Pecchi and Piga dealing with Keynes’s long period considerations set out in the essay Economic possibilities for our grandchildren. Comments concentrate on two of Keynes’s principal forecasts,...

This article reconstructs Franco Modigliani’s and Herbert Simon’s close collaboration over the 1950s on implementation of a decision theory under uncertainty that partly contributed to the genesis of behavioral economics and rational expectations theory. Their collaboration reveals how the...