Enrico Barone's famous article on economic planning, 'Il Ministro della Produzione nello Stato Collettivista' ('The Ministry of Production in the Collectivist State'), which showed the theoretical possibility of an economically efficient collectivist planned economy, was published in <italic>Giornale...</italic>

The aim of this paper is to investigate a vertically differentiated market served either by a multiproduct monopolist or by duopolists, in which a public authority aiming at increasing the welfare level can choose among two instruments, namely, quality taxation/subsidization, and minimum quality...

Il lavoro illustra il pensiero dell'economista romagnolo Angelo Marescotti (1815-1892) relativo al processo di sviluppo delle industrie italiane e propone una rilettura delle tesi di Marescotti sull'innovazione e sul processo concorrenziale. Dall'analisi dei suoi testi emerge la proposta di una...

We revisit the Cournot-Bertrand debate in the light of Cournot (1863), Edgeworth (1881, 1897) and Launhardt (1885), tracing back to Launhardt the origin of price competition in duopoly models. Then, we discuss the formalization of consumer utility function for differentiated products, first...

The Italian economist Enrico Barone (1859- 1924) is best known for his contributions to marginal productivity theory and the socialist planning debate. This paper analyzes Barone’s contributions to the theory of perfect competition which are largely ignored in the secondary literature. It...

The present article contributes to the history of the concept of natural monopoly, focusing on the reconstruction of its origins. The paper considers various facets of natural monopoly: the expression itself; the singling out of the concrete situations to which it is applied; the inquiry into...

After briefly reconstructing the debate in Italy during the period of the marginalist revolution on the correct methodology for the history of economic thought, the article examines De Viti de Marco's position. A historical essay of his (De Viti 1891) on Antonio Serra (1613), becomes the first...