The paper aims at highlighting the role played by Altiero Spinelli in the circulation of economic ideas between the fascist period and a few years after WWII. We look at the changing sources of his economic culture, from Marxism to some Italian and British federalist liberal Authors and...

Between the two World Wars, liberalism was challenged under many respects. Many intellectuals and several economists took an active part in the attempt to found a new strategy for the survival of the liberal values. Among them, some participated into the reflections that led, after WWII, to the...

The first 1947 meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society is considered the date of birth of neoliberalism. But the neoliberal thought after WWII is the result of fervent intellectual efforts in the previous decades. The paper aims at highlighting the role of Luigi Einaudi to the making of the...

Ulrich Beck has repeatedly accused social sciences to suffer from the disease of 'methodological nationalism'. The paper analyzes whether such disease also affects economics and political economy, with a special reference to constitutional and functional federalism as possible approaches which...

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...

The paper inquires into the concept of externality held by Alfred Marshall and Arthur Cecil Pigou in order to underline crucial differences between them on concepts like market failure, public goods, role of the economist in society and public intervention into the economy. Neglected...