At a distance of nearly two centuries since it broke out, the Bullion Controversy is still an endless source of questions and interpretations. The most recent contributions to the debate have focussed mainly on two points. The first is the position taken by one of most eminent participants in...

By looking at the available evidence on the London gold market in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, this p aper presents a new formulation of the gold points and models the mar ket behavior behind gold movements. While there is evidence that the merchants' behavior...

In this paper the authors present the findings of their research on a vast database containing the relevant information on the scientific characteristics of the three cohorts of assistant professors recruited in Italy in the early 1980s, the 1990s and the first few years of the new millennium....

The rise of classical political economy has certainly marked a change in the way economic theory dealt with monetary issues, as it combined the microeconomic knowledge of the problems of metallic circulation with a macroeconomic analysis of the causes of monetary disturbances (balance of...

Commodity markets are characterized by high price volatility, inefficient resource allocation and the cyclical reappearance of excessive surpluses and shortages. Historically, these problems and their relevant socio-economic implications have been tackled by means of protectionist measures at...

Cambridge as a geographical reference often crops up in the characterisation of the economic theories and approaches that developed in Cambridge (UK) between the 1920s and the 1960s with the contribution of economists who did not always share the same interests, background or attitudes, but who...