This is a review-article of a collection of essays written by monetary circuit theorists in honour of Augusto Graziani, edited in 2005 by G. Fontana and R. Realfonzo with the title "The Monetary Theory of Production: Tradition and Perspectives", for Palgrave Macmillan.

The paper examines the development over time of Marshall's theoretical position, with the purpose of assessing its place in the history of economic thought. Marshall's work, concerned with the theoretical implications of structural changes in the British economy after the industrial revolution,...

This is a short essay on the present state of a controversial problem: that of the relationship between the supply and the demand for money. Exogeneous or endogenous money supply? The different positions taken in the literature on the subject are examined and discussed. The author's confidence...

This is an unpublished document on the history of Italian economic planning in the 1970s: a letter of the Italian minister Ugo La Malfa to Claudio Napoleoni

In this article the Author reviews a recent book by Prof. Augusto Graziani on the monetary theory of production. It is maintained that, in spite of its Keynesian title, the book is not really Keynesian in character and provides a rather controversial picture of Keynes' views on the working of a...

This is a note on labour exploitation and alienation in the economic thought of Marx and Napoleoni. It is a comment on a previous article on the subject by Riccardo Bellofiore.

This is an analysis of the present state of the theory of capital. The paper contains a proposal to reformulate this theory in an ‘late-Marxian’ up-to-dated perspective. The central problem discussed is the integration of the theories of value and capital with those of money and finance. An...

The subject of this essay is an analysis of the historical relationship between the Italian and the grand-ducal Absburg-Lorrainer Tuscan traditions of economic studies in the preunification period which goes from the middle 1700s and 1860.

This is an essay on the nature of political economy as a theoretical and historical subject, and on the refusal of the neoclassical myth of a 'pure' economic science, in Claudio Napoleoni's thought.

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