We analyze in a simple general equilibrium model of North-South trade the migration of labour and environmental issues. We build on the North-South Trade model originally developed by Chichilnisky (1981, 1994). We assume that property rights for the environmental input are not well defined in...

In the attempt to answer three (interrelated) questions, we concentrate on a crucial step in Goodwin's (RMG) life: his move from Cambridge, Mass. to Cambridge, UK. Why did RMG not get a permanent position at Harvard? How did RMG reach the decision to settle down in Cambridge, UK? Why was it that...

Questa nota si propone l'obiettivo di analizzare se, e in clic misura, la produttività del lavoro nell'economia italiana degli ultimi cinquantanni sia cresciuta lungo un sentiero convergente. La struttura dell'economia italiana presa in considerazione si compone di 21 attività, il cui livello...

Attilio da Empoli (1904-48) is a relatively unknown Italian economist who for various reasons, included a premature death, is not recognized as an innovative scholar. One of the main preoccupation of da Empoli’s scientific research was to analize and refine the concept of equilibrium. In the...

This article describes the years of Goodwin’s ‘third life’ at the University of Siena, stressing in particular his main contributions to economic theory, the evolution in his political and philosophical ideas and his love of art. First, after a brief description of his arrival in Siena and...

In the paper I present and discuss an unpublished essay of Richard Goodwin found in the Goodwin’s Archive at the University of Siena on the theme of social philosophy. I will illustrate the main points of his text, briefly compare these late views with those entertained at the beginning of his...

In the paper I bring to the attention of the economists and historians of economic thought the idea of economic dynamics that one can found in the first book by Morishima published in 1950 but totally overlooked. It has a great interest not only because there it appears for the first time the...

Highlights the theory of competition advanced by da Empoli in the late 1920s. The main point is the existence of discontinuities in industrial concerns. This leads to the possibility that prices exceed marginal costs and depend also on ultramarginal costs, a new concept elaborated by da Empoli....