Luigi Ceriani (1912-1999) was the founder of Moneta e Credito and BNL Quarterly Review, and their editor for the first forty years of their lives. The article illustrates his life history, in particular his role in the founding and in the successive life of the two journals as well as in the...

Luigi Ceriani (1912-1999) was the founder of Moneta e Credito and Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, and their editor for the first forty years of their lives. The article illustrates his life history, in particular his role in the founding and in the successive life of the two...

The article discusses the main trends in the formation and evolution of political economy as a scientific discipline. By proposing to include under such label all studies of the organisation of human societies for what concerns the activities of exchange and production, the article deals with...

The theory of ophelimity in closed and open cycles proposed by Pareto following Volterra’s observations is examined. Although these were oriented towards identification of the integrability conditions, Pareto shows no interest in them, but in the problem of the measurement of the elementary...

The paper analyzes strategic behavior in a two-stage environmental choice problem under different information scenarios. Given uncertainty about environmental cost and irreversibility of development, "learning without destroying" emerges from strategic competition when information is endogenous...

We apply an alternating proposals protocol with a confirmation stage as a way of solving a Prisoner’s Dilemma game. We interpret players’ proposals and (no) confirmation of outcomes of the game as a tacit communication device. The protocol leads to unprecedented high levels of cooperation in...