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.

For catching-up countries the convergence path is to be accurately monitored and guided to non inflationary growth, especially for accession countries to the Eu. In this paper, we argue that a strategic planning on the development of tourism for a specific region within a wider macroeconomic and...

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...

At the end of the Seventies, a new consensus was taking the lead in economic theory on the perfect rationality of agents, the ineffectiveness of economic policies and, therefore, on the possibility to sustain experiments of monetary integration worldwide. Among the few Authors who still believed...

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....

Increasing trade interdependence among East-Asian countries suggests the urge to design some monetary arrangement to stabilize the macroeconomic framework of an extremely heterogeneously growing area. The paper reviews the literature and analyses several directions of East-Asian integration...

In the very moment when a Bretton Woods II is worldwide demanded to assist the recovery from the recent US-originated financial crisis, it is evident how the temporary insulation of Indian financial system from the global crisis is a tempting occasion to focus on national responses and defences...