The brief note introduces the article collected in the present issue of the journal. It places the various contributions in perspective, critically summarizing the major economic developments since the publication of the last issue.La breve nota introduce l'articolo raccolto nel numero attuale...

The article is an introduction to the new issue of the Journal. It provides an overview of the current economic and financial situation and summarises the main topics dealt with by the following articles

The article synthesizes the large and extending literature on the financial and economic crisis from a Post-Keynesian point of view. The authors take on the position that the international and internal real imbalances are serious and worrying, but yet they are not the cause of the crisis or of...

The financial and economic crisis brings to a reconsideration of macroeconomics: as it happened in the past, after the Great Crash of 1929 as well as after the Second World War and after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971 and the subsequent oil crisis. A brief critical survey of...

The article introduces the papers published in the present issue. It does so by elaborating a few comments on the role of institutions for economic development and how should economics analyse institutions

Economists commonly specialize in some limited parts of the general field. This is a necessity, due to the complexity of the different issues, the amount of literature available on each of them and the possibility of recourse to different analytical or statistical tools. However, specialization...

Con questo numero speciale si apre una nuova stagione della storia della nostra rivista. In una fase di ristrutturazioni interne, la Banca Nazionale del Lavoro ha concordato la cessione della proprietà della rivista stessa e della sua consorella Quarterly Review all' Associazione Paolo Sylos...

In this article, Alessandro Roncaglia renders a careful and detailed intellectual tribute to the memory of Paolo Sylos Labini. Roncaglia's contribution provides at once a biographical account and recounts the intellectual trajectory of his Italian colleague. While Sylos Labini's theory of...

Questo numero speciale della Rivista trimestrale PSL comprende alcuni articoli apparsi nel corso degli anni nella prima serie della nostra rivista (allora intitolato BNL Quarterly Review: vedi Roncaglia 2008). Gli articoli pubblicati di seguito sono stati selezionati tra quelli che possono...