Attention to the implicit and explicit wage theories articulated by economic actors and embedded in public policy reveals the underlying social norms and values in specific historical and industrial contexts. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), the first federal minimum wage legislation...

Европейский либерализм предок всех более поздних либерализмов встретил в России столь жёсткое неприятие, что может создаться впечатление, будто он и есть...

Las cofradías cumplieron en la Colonia y hasta la primera mitad del siglo XIX un papel no sólo religioso sino también económico al poseer tierras y actuar como entidades financieras. Las personas ligadas a las operaciones económicas de las cofradías eran los miembros de la élite local,...

This paper demonstrates that the current economic crisis has its roots in the evolution of the global economy during the 1960s. The gradual increase of US debt from the 1960s accompanied by the deficit in the US trade balance due to international competition from EU, Japan, and later from China...

European monetary history prior to 1950 presents many attempts at international monetary coordination, but none were as bold and as far reaching as the European Monetary Union envisioned in the Delors Report of 1989 and enacted through the 1991 Treaty on the European Union in Maastricht. This...

This is the general relation held by the author at the Conference on "Epicarmo Corbino, economista, ministro, politico", organized in Naples, 3-5 June, 2010, by the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici. It traces a scientific portrait of this Italian liberal economist, who played an...

Economic decisions frequently depend on ideological foundations. However, there are many decisions which are independent of any doctrinaire or ideological orientation. The separation of decisional zones having an ideological component from those without such a component is very important, on...