In the last decade of the nineteenth century, Italian scholars started using a scientific methodology to tackle public finance problems. Their studies are now referred to as the Italian tradition in public finance, whose origin is considered to lie with De Viti de Marco (1888). Shortly before...

Was the Keynesian message alive during the second half of the XXth Century, or was it betrayed by his followers? This article in the fields of the history of economic thought and methodology contrasts the Scientific Research Programmes (SRPs), a Lakatosian concept, of Keynes in The General...

This work examines in depth the methodological relationships that probability and statistics have maintained with the social sciences. It covers both the history of thought and current methods. First, it examines in detail the history of the different paradigms and axioms for probability, from...

This paper examines the concept of hegemony and its historical impacts on the Arabic and Islamic countries. It is foreseen that has long path applied by the Western countries as disclosed by trade applications and history of economic thought. Impacts on Arabic and Islamic countries were visible...

Nos proponemos examinar los conceptos que configuran la organización social desde la perspectiva del caos en el contexto liberal. La metáfora del caos remite a la idea de lacooperación social en donde el reconocimiento de los deseos privados constituye la base del bien común. De esta manera...

Joseph Schumpeter est un des derniers intellectuels a avoir eu une vision encyclopédique de l’économie et des sciences sociales. Il a développé une explication des cycles basé sur une théorie de l’innovation, de la « destruction créatrice » et des entrepreneurs qui cherchent à se...

Italian Abstract: L'articolo si basa sugli atti di una commissione d'inchiesta parlamentare italiana del 1962 sulla concorrenza, per esaminare l'attuale situazione italiana e le prospettive di riforma. L'autore si concentra in particolare sulla testimonianza di Giovanni Demaria. Il testo del...

In this paper it is argued that the domestic division of labor and trade is organized according to the same principle as the international division of labor and trade – the Ricardian comparative advantages. After all, the ultimate source of these comparative advantages is the individual. The...

Fiscal psychology is not a modern discipline. The history of economic thought leaves no doubt as to the fact that many of the notions of fiscal psychology as we know it today were present in the past. There are even cases, though these are not frequent, of economists and social scientists of the...